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GT3 Endurance Cup and Sprint racing headlines a full GT weekend at the Algarve circuit.
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Autódromo Internacional do Algarve
The GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS returns to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve with a full weekend of GT3 racing, combining the Endurance Cup and Sprint categories alongside the GT4 and GT2 European Series support races. Factory backed teams and gentleman drivers share the grid in some of the fastest production based GT cars racing today.
Portimão's blind crests and elevation changes make overtaking unpredictable and reward drivers who commit through the fast middle sector, giving spectators plenty to watch from the grandstands and paddock walkway.
Schedule and ticket details are published by the circuit closer to the event; check the official page before travelling.
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A few minutes from the venue, and taking bookings or requests.
FIA/FIM-homologated race circuit in Portimao, opened 2008, hosting World Superbike and offering Track Days Auto from €330.
400 m from the venue
Europe-sized go-kart track near Portimão with 15 to 60 minute sessions from €29, open daily, no booking needed.
400 m from the venue
One email a week with the best events across the Algarve. Free.
Spots found by members, the town’s own circle, and people who answer whatever you want to ask.
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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Short painting and drawing courses led by artists from a local gallery.
Mould, paint and glaze an almond blossom piece in the Algarve pottery tradition.
45-minute beach workout for all levels at Oura Beach East, then drinks at the beach café. First class free.
Weekly Monster giveaways and promotions with house, R'n'B and hip hop every Thursday at Matt's Bar in Albufeira, March to October.
by Matt's Bar