The Olhão municipality
The whole Olhão municipality, in one place.
The Algarve’s biggest fishing port never dressed itself up for tourists, and that is its charm: waterfront markets, a cubist old town and ferries out to the Ria Formosa islands, with Moncarapacho in the orchards behind. This is everything happening across the concelho: the towns, the events and the businesses, brought together and kept current by the community.
What’s on
Upcoming across the Olhão municipality.
Raul Reyes, Osvaldo Pegudo & the Algarve Jazz Orchestra
Olhao South Jazz 2026
Júlia Vargas
Olhão Saturday Riverside Market
Olhão Saturday Riverside Market
Moncarapacho Market
Olhão Saturday Riverside Market
Seafood Festival 2026 (Festival do Marisco de Olhão)
Local businesses
35 on Algarve Circle across the concelho.
What Olhão is known for
The Markets
Twin red-brick market halls on the waterfront since 1916, fish on one side, fruit on the other.
The Islands
Ferries run from the quay to the barrier-island beaches of Armona and Culatra.
Seafood Festival
Every August the waterfront gardens host the Algarve’s great shellfish feast.
The Cubist Quarter
Flat-roofed, whitewashed fishermen’s houses that give the old town its North African look.
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