Parishes:
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Albufeira |
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Ferreiras |
| - Guia |
- Olhos
de Água |
| - Paderne |
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Located
in the center of the Algarve, twenty
minutes away from Faro Airport, the municipality of Albufeira have
the
best known tourist resorts of the
Algarve and the most popular along the European markets.
According
to several archaeologists
and historians, the origin of Albufeira was a trading post of the
Phoenicians,
founded around 970 B.C. Eight
centuries later, at the beginning of the II century BC, the Romans
established
themselves in that area,
giving it the name of Baltum.
The Romans brought great
innovations to the life of the natives. They built aqueducts, roads
and bridges,
of which there are some remains.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the Visigoths assumed the control
of
a great number of areas of
the Iberian Peninsula, until the arrival of the Arabic power. Baltum was
conquered at the beginning
of the 8th century AD, with the name of Al-Buhera. The domain
of the Arabs brought prosperity and military importance to it (they
built the castles of Paderne
and of Albufeira). In
1249 King D. Afonso III conquered Al-Buhera for
the Kingdom of Portugal and of the Algarve. The
castle of Paderne, of Arabic
construction, is one of the seven castles represented
in the coat
of arms of
the Portuguese national flag,
being an important historic testimony of the Arabic
domain
in the Algarve.
The
earthquake of 1755
and the big seaquake which followed it, destroyed
the village
provoking hundreds
of deaths and the destruction of almost
all of the buildings,
inc1uding the castle and the mother church. A significant
part of the architectonic,
religious and civil
patrimony were rebuilt thanks
to the impulse of
the Bishop D. Francisco Gomes de Avelar.
Examples of these
latter buildings are the mother churches of Albufeira
and
Pademe. The
development of Albufeira
happened around the fishing activity from the middle
of the
19th century. From
1930 until 1960 Albufeira
lived times of decadence. The fishing tackles went
bankrupt, the
fishing factories
closed, the vessels disappeared
and many houses were abandoned. The population was
reduced
to half and fishing
became an activity of subsistence.
At
the beginning of
the 1960s, the tourist phenomenon was born. Albufeira
was
visited by national's
and foreign tourists
from all over the world, but the British were the
ones who most influenced
the touristic development
of this Municipality
and who made it more
famous. Albufeira
offers the most diversified
tourist real estate in the Algarve, both in terms
of residences
and hotels.
It is enriched by an excellent
scenery frame and an extended network of complementary
services
of hotels
and restaurants, modern shoppings,
a marina, golf courses, sportive
diving, environmental education and more than
20 spectacular beaches along
a coast of 30 km of upstream.
Albufeira
has transformed itself
into one of the municipalities of the Algarve
where both national
and international investors look for property.
The quality and quantity
of tourist infra-structures of the municipality (hotels,
high level tourist
villages,
luxurious
resorts, shopping
areas, the manna, golf courses, excellent
beaches, transportation
systems) and a very varied offer of all kinds
of services constitute
additional guarantees of valuing the touristic and
housing
investment
in this municipality.
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