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For its second edition, Open Ateliers Olhão opens the studios of 68 resident artists to the public over three days, including 47 Portuguese and 21 foreign born artists working in the town. For the fir
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For its second edition, Open Ateliers Olhão opens the studios of 68 resident artists to the public over three days, including 47 Portuguese and 21 foreign born artists working in the town. For the first time the event also features 21 secondary and university students and 32 artists without their own studio space, shown at pop-up venues in the town centre. The programme covers painting, installation, illustration, photography, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, street art and architecture, alongside music performances, mentoring and guided visits.
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One-day AI business conference for SME leaders at Real Marina Hotel & Spa in Olhão, 15 October 2026, with talks, workshops and networking.
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Olhão's municipal museum of maritime and fishing heritage, in the historic Compromisso Marítimo building.
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Nine-room boutique guesthouse in central Olhão with a heated pool, sauna and retreat and events space.
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The southernmost tip of mainland Portugal: an uninhabited barrier island of white sand and shell banks, a short boat ride from Faro. Ilha Deserta, officially Ilha da Barreta, has no town, no cars and a single restaurant by the jetty. Most visitors settle within sight of it, which is why we send people the other way: follow the boardwalk or the tideline south-west towards Cabo de Santa Maria and within fifteen minutes you have kilometres of beach to yourself, with shell drifts underfoot and the whole Ria Formosa at your back. Boats run from Faro's old town pier year round, more often in summer. There is no shade beyond the restaurant, so take an umbrella, water and a hat, and note the time of the last boat back.
A pink Rococo revival palace above Faro whose terraced gardens, azulejos and orange trees feel made for slow afternoons. The Palácio de Estói was a nineteenth century nobleman's fantasy and is now a pousada, but the gardens remain open to visitors and are the real prize: balustraded terraces, blue and white azulejo panels, statues, palms and a fountain stair that catches the light at dusk. It sits just off Estói's village square, so you can pair it with coffee at a local café or with the Roman ruins at Milreu, ten minutes away on foot. Weekday mornings outside holiday season are near silent. Enter through the garden gate rather than the hotel reception and take the terraces from the bottom up for the best reveal.
The ruins of a grand Roman villa at Estói, complete with fish mosaics and a temple that later became a church. Milreu was a luxury estate from the first to the fourth century, and what survives is remarkably legible: bathhouse walls with dolphin and fish mosaics, olive presses, and the tall podium temple that early Christians later converted, one of the few of its kind in Portugal. Interpretive panels are decent and the site rarely draws more than a handful of visitors at a time, so you can take it slowly under the trees while the rural setting drives home how comfortable Roman country life was. Pair it with the palace gardens up the road in Estói; the walk between the two takes about ten minutes.
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