
Extensive portion of sand protected by cliffs, the Beach of the Rocha in Portimão is known internationally and, for a long time, the visit card of Portimão. Inviting to sunbathing and sea, the extensive bay offers the best conditions for the practice of nautical sports and walks of boat.
” Three Bears “, ” Perforated ” and Rocks ” Two Brothers ” are some of the names with which the places baptized the crags taken root in the sand, which provide pacificatory shadows when the heat pinches.
In the Avenue Tomás Cabreira, who accompanies the line of the coast even to the Saint’s Fortress Catarina of Seashore, there proliferate the hotels, bars, restaurants, esplanades and discotheques that, jointly with the Casino, do from the Rock a zone of intense commercial and tourist activity, really international.
Extremely cosmopolitan, the zone has great nocturnal activity, which is accented significantly in the Summer, being a great deal of the preference of the most young.
Specially in the hot summer months, a great deal of the beaches from the Algarve do not come sleeping. When the agitation of the bathers who like using the sun and the sea was passed, the night it brings to these beaches a type different from liveliness.It is then that the bronze bodies substitute the bathing suits for sophisticated clothes and live, in the same beaches in what were during the day, splendorous environments full of rhythms and colorful drinks.

Along the whole coast it is possible to find beaches that, at least in the balneal time, have to work small services of bar or esplanade what there do whose delights it looks for nocturnal calm amusements and intimistas. Already the lovers of agitated and intense nights to the seaside, have in the Algarve a true paradise, being Portimão and Albufeira the most rung centres.
For whom it does not abdicate of enjoying of the smell of the sea, even during the night, the riverside zone of the Alvor or the avenue Tomás Cabreira, delinquent to the Beach of the Rock, are essential, so they simmer of activity in many bars, esplanades, restaurants and discotheques there existent.