With a long history of fishing, Portimão developed in the last decades, to the resemblance of the remainder of the Algarve, like a tourist center, presenting a broad offering in hotels and restaurants and a lively commerce.  Became a fate of popular vacation must, in special, to the famous Beach of the Rock, a series of beautiful sandy areas golden, small bays and capricious cliffs. 

Portimão is also ideal for those that valued the fishing of large-scale fish (as the swordfish), but others nautical sports, like the jet ski, the candle, the windsurf and the dive receive support to the long one of the coastal line.Alvor - an extensive sandy area, as far as the eye can to see up to the estuary of the laughed.  Hotel complexes and several equipment do of this beach an important international tourist center.  Tres Irmãos and Prainha - already nearby Alvor, stayed in the sequence of the line of the coast, separate among themselves by cliffs with tunnels excavated by the sea João of Arens - a small stretch of sand between cliffs, a lot tranquila and little frequented, surrounded by islanders. 

Beach of the Shallows - that is followed to the Beach of the
Rock, is a family and smaller sandy area, encircled by clayey cliffs to that I was attributed medicinal qualities.  Beach of the Rock a series of beautiful sandy areas golden, small bays and capricious cliffs