Faro is the capital of the province of Algarve, the center of the same district and in general of all southern Portugal..This cozy city with an ancient fortress wall and a local history museum is very popular with tourists from Northern Europe and Great Britain..It's in Faro that all buses and trains arrive from Spain's neighbor and fly charters with Russian tourists from Moscow..As the largest city in the county, it is often used by tourists as a starting point of travel in the south of Portugal..Within a half an hour's drive from Faro there are a lot of attractions and smaller resorts, so you can get a lot of different impressions at a minimum cost of .However, those who prefer beach holidays with a cocktail in their hand, too, will not be disappointed .To go here from the neighboring resorts is for the sake of the rare chimneys in the villages along the way (Portuguese pipes as a trim for Russian houses: true masterpieces come across) .The second goal - fish restaurants in the port .If you can make a complete picture of the South-Portuguese cuisine, then only here is $ ±​​$.

How to get

Faro Airport is the largest airport in the south of Portugal, with a number of flights every day from the UK, continental Europe and Canada. There are no direct flights from Russia, but you can choose a route with one transfer in any European city. If Faro is not the first point of research in Portugal, or if you just want to save (sometimes there is no difference, and sometimes it reaches 100 euros), you can fly to Lisbon with one change, and then get to Faro by land transport.

Railway and bus services connect Faro with Lisbon. A fast train runs between two cities at least twice a day, costs 20-25 EUR one way (depending on the class) and goes 2, 5 hours. The usual train goes 3, 5-4 hours, walks more often and costs less. The bus runs for 3-4 hours and costs 18-19 EUR one way, the ticket for it can be purchased immediately before departure.

Transport

By the city itself you can move on municipal buses No. 14 and No. 16, tickets for them are purchased from the driver. Many people prefer to walk around the city on foot.

With regard to travel around the region, commuter buses go to Albufeira (4, 2 EUR, 1, 5-2 hours on the road), some on the way to call in Portimão and Lagos. Bus trips to Seville via Huelva are performed twice a day (13 EUR, 5 hours). Once a week, a train runs through Coimbra. Daily trains leave for Albufeira (2, 5 EUR, half an hour on the road), Lagos and Lola.

Climate of the Faro

March 1, Sunday Clearly +18 ° С in the afternoon +11 ° С at night ° С water	March 2, Monday Clearly +19 ° С in the day +12 ° С at night ° С water	March 3, Tuesday Clearly +20 ° С in the afternoon +13 ° С at night ° С water
Faro weather forecast for 10 days

Beach

Like in any coastal city of young Portugal, Faro has a sandy beach many kilometers long - Praia de Faro. Even in the high season, it does not happen to be crowded because of its colossal proportions. On it you can find rental offices and a public toilet, but there is not a single shower. The beach is close to the airport, so many passengers registering for a late flight and leaving their luggage go there to swim for the last.

Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Faro

The most real adventure will be an ordinary walk around the city on their own two $ $ .The historical center, which is the Old City, is a beautifully preserved corner of Portugal of the 18th century, with cobbled streets and ancient buildings, in the architecture of which the influence of Mauritanian culture is traced .And in the Old Town, and in modern areas, you can meet strange vehicles, real wonders of automobile design - even a pickup with motorcycle rudders and a front wheel! In the same place you will see a lot of retro cars, for example, Renault 4s, which in their native France in the afternoon with fire you will not find, here come across often enough .

Being deep in thought, you can accidentally come across one of the most famous landmarks of Faro - Capela dos Ossos, one of the two most notable buildings of its kind in the world (the second one is in the Czech Republic, in the town of Kutná Hora) - $ .The walls and columns of the chapel are decorated with the bones of more than 1200 dead monks, and the inscription "These bones are waiting for their bones" is engraved on the entrance..Although now the building is considered a grim monument of death, reminiscent of the living about the fleetingness of being, at the time of the temple's acquisition of such a strange decor, its purpose was purely practical..The chapel belonged to the monks of the mendicant Franciscans order who, due to wars and epidemics, could not find new places for burial, and there was not enough space in the church cemetery .The monks began to dig out the old remains and put them in the basement, and in their place to bury the new ones, and this could be repeated three or four times .When the cellars were full of bones, and the stench became unbearable, the monks found a way out - they cleaned the bones of the remains of the flesh, bleached them in slaked lime and laid out the altar, the walls and ceiling of the church .

Of the other attractions worth noting the University of Algarve, a picturesque seaport and a marina. There is a 30,000-thousandth stadium, which was one of the stadiums of the 2004 European Football Championship. Other interesting places: Faro Castle, St. Francis Monastery, Capuchin Monastery, St. Francis Church, St. Barbara, St. Peter's, Episcopal Palace, Belmarku mansion, Admiral Ramal Oertigan's Maritime Museum. Photo Faro (10)