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Algarve Circle
Portimão municipality
Community guide

The Portimão municipality

The whole Portimão municipality, in one place.

3 towns8 beaches8 upcoming events57 businesses Official council site

The Algarve’s second city earned its living from sardines before it turned to sand: Praia da Rocha’s grand beach, Alvor’s estuary boardwalks and a world-class race track in the hills. This is everything happening across the concelho: the towns, the beaches, the events and the businesses, brought together and kept current by the community.

Towns of the concelho

Every town and village across the Portimão municipality.

What’s on

Upcoming across the Portimão municipality.

Local businesses

57 on Algarve Circle across the concelho.

What Portimão is known for

Praia da Rocha

The grand old resort beach, a huge sweep of sand beneath ochre cliffs and the marina.

Museu de Portimão

The town museum in a former sardine cannery, winner of the Council of Europe Museum Prize.

Alvor Boardwalks

Wooden walkways cross the dunes and estuary of the Ria de Alvor, alive with wading birds.

The Autódromo

The rollercoaster Algarve International Circuit has hosted Formula 1 and hosts MotoGP.

Official council services

For licences, water, planning and other municipal services, the Câmara Municipal de Portimão handles those directly.

For the câmara

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