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Endurance prototypes and GT cars race at the Algarve circuit in the European Le Mans Series.
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Autódromo Internacional do Algarve
The European Le Mans Series brings its LMP2, LMP2 Pro-Am, LMP3 and LMGT3 prototypes and GT cars to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve for an endurance round on the fast Portimão circuit. Teams and drivers chasing the season's overall and class titles run multi-hour stints through changing conditions, with pit strategy as important as outright pace.
The Algarve circuit's elevation changes and blind crests make it one of the more demanding stops on the ELMS calendar, and a good vantage point for watching cars run wheel to wheel through the closing laps.
Schedule and ticket details are published by the circuit closer to the event; check the official page before travelling.
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A necropolis of 5,000 year old monumental tombs in farmland behind Alvor, with a walk-in burial mound at its heart. Alcalar was the ceremonial centre of a Copper Age community that farmed this corner of the Algarve, and restored Monument 7 is the showpiece: a stone mound with a low passage leading to a corbelled chamber, engineering from around 3000 BC that you can peer into from the entrance corridor. Several more tombs lie around it in various states of excavation, and a small interpretation centre sets the scene. Few people come, so you will likely share the site only with larks and the wind. It is signposted from Mexilhoeira Grande off the N125; combine it with lunch in Alvor or Figueira.
A blue green reservoir folded into the hills north of Lagos, with dam-top views, quiet trails and not a beach bar in sight. Twenty minutes from the coast, the Bravura dam holds a lake that winds between eucalyptus and cork slopes, and almost nobody makes the detour. Cross the dam wall for the classic view down the valley, then pick up the dirt tracks along the shore for an hour of walking with only goat bells for company. Water levels swing with the rains, so the shoreline can look dramatic in dry years. There is no café and no lifeguard, which is precisely why it stays calm. Drive up via Odiáxere, take a picnic, and save the viewpoint by the dam gates for golden hour.
A tiny spa hamlet in a wooded mountain valley, taking the waters since Roman times and shady in the fiercest August. Caldas de Monchique gathers around a sloping square where the buildings are pastel, the tree canopy is deep and the only sounds are birdsong and running water. People have come for the springs for some two thousand years; King João II arrived in 1495 hoping the waters would cure him. Above the square, the thermal park climbs the stream in a series of pools, bridges and follies, and paths continue up into the eucalyptus and cork woods. It is the Algarve at its most unhurried. Park in the lay-by on the main road and walk down into the hamlet; mornings smell of wood smoke and wet leaves.
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An introduction to hand weaving, through experimentation with yarns, textures and different methods of textile construction.
FEDOR, one of the artists of the ARTURb urban art residency, leads an urban art workshop open to the whole community on 17 and 18 October from 10:00. Tickets and registration are handled through the L
A spirit of camaraderie and sharing the waves characterise the inter-members’ surf meet and the Softboard Challenge, organised by the Albufeira Surf Club at Praia da Galé. The event brings together cl
They say "third time's the charm", that "things come in threes" and that nobody lasts beyond old [lit. third] age. It is in this inevitable logic of life that Gilmário Vemba brings "3rd ROUND", a show
