Best places to visit in Algarve, Portugal for families, friends and couples along with activity ideas
For those thinking of jetting off to The Algarve this summer
Praia de São Rafael, Albufeira, Portugal (Image: Dan Gold, Unsplash.com)
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8 of the best package holidays to Portugal
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UK tourists arrive in Portugal as travel curbs lifted
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Poland lifts strict two-month COVID travel curbs
World
Tue, May 18, 2021
FARO: British holidaymakers returned to the sun-soaked beaches of Portugal on Monday, as the country seeks to revive its battered tourism industry after lifting travel restrictions that had been imposed to curb Covid-19.
Britons are the biggest contingent of tourists in Portugal, a country whose economy relies heavily on foreign visitors.
Portugal imposed a strict two-month lockdown earlier this year to control a new wave of coronavirus infections. It lifted restrictions on visitors from Britain and most European Union countries from Monday.
Bea Wilkinson, a waitress from the northern English city of Manchester, spoke of her delight to have arrived on the first flight to Faro, on Portugal´s southern Algarve coast.
Why you re wrong about the Algarve
Ignore the stereotype: there s so much more to the Algarve than its beaches and golf courses. You just have to know where to look
14 May 2021 • 4:24pm
Walk the wild west: A week-long rambling holiday will take you along dunes and clifftops, to isolated coves and paths lined with Mediterranean flora
This summer, the Algarve is our best chance of a sun-soaked European getaway, with Portugal planted firmly on the UK’s travel green list and the Portuguese government having now lifted its travel ban to allow British holidaymakers to fly to the country from May 17. No doubt you’ll gravitate towards the Algarve’s Blue Flag beaches and glitzy resorts, but look beyond and you’ll find a region full of surprises.