The rooms
Explore
Community
Create
For owners
Company
Contact & legal
Account
The rooms
Explore
Community
Create
For owners
Company
Contact & legal
Account
The inaugural IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in Vilamoura, on 3 April 2027.
Do you organise this event?
Organisers and venues can claim IRONMAN 70.3 Vilamoura-Algarve free of charge to manage the listing, add photos and tickets, and host it under their business.
Planning to attend? No claim needed. Just mark yourself as going.
Vilamoura hosts the first-ever IRONMAN 70.3 Vilamoura-Algarve on 3 April 2027, a new middle-distance triathlon that opens the European IRONMAN season. Athletes cover a 1.9km one-loop swim starting at Vilamoura Marina Beach, a 90km one-loop bike ride through the Algarve countryside, and a 21km two-loop run passing the marina, Quarteira beach and the seafront promenade. The race joins IRONMAN Cascais to give Portugal two major events book-ending the European calendar. General registration opens on 30 July 2026 at ironman.com. Expect thousands of athletes and supporters in Vilamoura across the race weekend, filling the marina, hotels and restaurants in what is set to become a fixture on the Algarve's spring calendar.
Be the first to comment.
Type a question and get a straight answer from the pages here.
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.
The long wooden footbridge across the Ria Formosa at Quinta do Lago, at its best in the hour after sunrise. By mid morning this boardwalk is a procession of beach bags, but at dawn it belongs to herons, joggers and whoever bothered to set an alarm. The bridge crosses lake, marsh and dune on its way to Praia da Quinta do Lago, and the low light across the wetland is the closest the Golden Triangle gets to wilderness. Anglers work the channel below, and the São Lourenço nature trail begins by the lake if you want to extend the walk. Park at the Praia da Quinta do Lago car park at the end of the avenue; arriving before eight in summer also means beating the parking queue.
Flat lagoon-side tracks between Faro airport and Quinta do Lago where flamingos feed in old salt pans. The Ludo estate is the Ria Formosa at its most generous: former salinas and freshwater ponds threaded by sandy service tracks that anyone can walk or cycle. Flamingos are the headline act and are present most of the year, joined by spoonbills, black-winged stilts and, in the pines, chameleons you will almost certainly not spot. The route connects to the São Lourenço birdwatching trail, so you can make a morning of it, and the airport runway makes a surreal backdrop for photographs. Start from the dirt road off the Praia de Faro bridge or from the Quinta do Lago side, go early for the light, and bring binoculars.
A year round stream in the dry Barrocal hills, ringed by a gentle signposted loop walk near Querença. Water is the rarest thing in the Algarve interior, and Fonte Benémola has it all year, welling up through limestone and sliding between willows, poplars and reed beds. The protected valley holds a circular trail of roughly four and a half kilometres, flat enough for children and shaded for much of the way. Terrapins bask on the stones, dragonflies work the pools, and spring turns the banks into a wildflower show. We rate it as the easiest proper nature walk in the central Algarve. Start from the small car park on the Querença side and walk the loop anticlockwise to keep the stream beside you early on.
The town circle
Ask the locals, share what’s on and keep up with life in Vilamoura.
6 membersAsk it here. People who live in the Algarve answer, and no question is too small.
Cinema Sessions - CinemaLua at São Brás de Alportel. Hours: 7.15 pm. Organised by CinemaLua. Listed in the official Visit Algarve events guide. Details: www.cinemalua.pt.
Paint your own azulejo using seventeenth-century techniques, every Monday into December.
The Piazzetta by Adega turns into an evening of Portuguese food, music and company.