Visit the Ribeira de Quatrim - Quelfes

Visit the Armona Island Beach - Quelfes

Armona Island Beach, located on the Armona Island and belongs to the geographical area of the Town of Quelfes.
To reach the beach there are regular boat from Faro, Olhão and Fuseta, then you must go through the maze of sand and mud of the Ria Formosa. The sand barrier is consistent and very wide, the beach is out of sight and extends to the east, to the beach Fuseta, providing moments of tranquility for those who enjoy hiking or have a private boat. The sand banks along the bar demarcating delicious natural pools. Here too we can observe the rich flora and aromatic dune fields, as well as enjoy the warm winds from the east and enjoy the fiery sunset tones invariably sunsets.
The currents along the bar are usually very strong, requiring caution.

Visit Ria Beach - Quelfes

Ria Beach, located on the Armona Island, Olhão Town of, is washed by the waters of Ria Formosa.

Visit the Roman Bridge Quelfes

The Roman Bridge Quelfes, also known as Old Bridge Quelfes, was built in the first century AD, and rebuilt on several occasions, considered one of the most important road structures at the time of Roman occupation exist today within the eastern Algarve.

Its structure is relatively modest, assuming then that it was a bridge crossing a side road connection to any land and private villas.

With a historic status, the bridge is mostly recognized because of their vicinity Napoleon's troops were defeated on June 18, 1808.

The Roman Bridge has recently undergone restoration work in 2005.

Visit the Church of Quelfes

Visit Chalet Marim - Quelfes

The Marim Cottage, located in the Town of Quelfes, was built by the poet, musician and painter, John Pike in 1916 at Quinta do Marim. The cottage was later recovered by the Natural Park of Ria Formosa, faithfully respecting the original architecture.

For its exoticism, is still regarded as the epitome of symbolist architecture in Portugal. This is a building with three floors, square shape, no front or rear.

Orientated along the four cardinal points, four staircases mark the entrances to the center of the house topped with a skylight. The staircase to the north has the shape of fish, the south, guitar; the spring, violin; the west, Snake. Symbolically, the fish represents water, guitar, fire, and the violin, the air, the snake, the earth.

The Chalet is currently adapted to Ecoteca / Museum.

Visit Pier Armona Island - Quelfes

Visit Stone Cheese dairy - Pechão

Visit the Church of Pechão

The Church of Pechão has the particularity to be at the highest point of the town, which allows you to have a beautiful view that reaches across the region to the sea, being able to see much of the Algarve coast.

Visit the Old Fountain - Pechão

The Old Fountain, located in the Town of Pechão, dates from 1754.

Visit Chalet Bela Mandil - Pechão

Visit the Chapel of Bones - Pechão

Small chapel built in the open and covered with bones. The frontispiece was also decorated with skulls on cross-bones.

Visit the Sundial - Olhão

Visit the fishing port of Olhão

The fishing port of Olhão is a port of refuge, where you can find all the fishing fleet of Olhão. It also serves for unloading fish.

Visit the City Museum - Olhão

The City Museum of Olhão, located in the Town of Olhão, is installed in the Maritime Building Commitment.

Visit Marina de Olhão

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary - Olhão

The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, located in the Town of Olhão, began to be built on 4 June 1698 and took 17 years to complete, and its opening occurred in 1715.
It is a Baroque-style church, which, given a barrel-vault great and well and launched a four-tower bell. The front is high and topped by a pediment of masonry, with scrolls and the tympanum is decorated with a crowned shield Marian and angels flanking it. The portal is surmounted by a pediment with carved decorations and the windows are ornaments above the lintel. It's a facade with two bodies overlapped with the particularity of the aligned windows do remember the civilian buildings.
The interior is shaped like a Latin cross, with arms slightly pointed, with five altars (the main altar, the altar of St. Peter and the shrine of St. John the Baptist, the wall of the cruise, the altar of the souls, on the Epistle side and altar of Our Lady of the Conception of the Gospel side. The altarpiece of the main chapel is baroque in terms decorative stands out as being all gold, with a group of angels under the canopy worshipers around a good wooden image of Jesus resurrected and the tabernacle with its monumental dome in rotunda. The side altars are Johannine phase in gilt on a red background and with a canopy over the niches.
The reredos of the altar of Our Lady of the Conception is ending in a gold and polychrome statue of angels and crowned with the Portuguese escudo.
The altarpiece of the Chapel of the Crucifixion must have been done in later years by the same carver of the altarpiece of Our Lady of Conception, since they are identical. Already a triumphal arch is carved rococo.

The particularity of this church is having in its rear a small chapel dedicated to the Lord of the Afflicted. This is a chapel facade centered, with hipped roofs and windows with wrought iron balconies. The center has a portico of three arches, decorated inside with tiles of blue and white, and a porch. It is enhanced by a mosaic with Christ Crucified, abroad. It is seen from the Avenue of the Republic and is guarded only by an iron railing.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Solitude - Olhão

The Chapel of Our Lady of Solitude, located in the Town of Olhão, which is unknown to date of its construction, although this is presumed to be the same chapel church historical records indicate that some have been founded in Marim D. John I (XIV century).
The altarpieces are the altars of the century. Nineteenth and an image of Santa Luzia of XVIII century.

Visit the Bandstand in Olhão

Visit the Banks Tiles - Olhão

Banks Tiles, located in the parish of Olhão in the Garden of fishermen are from Jorge.