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Dos Santos Craft Beer
2.2 mi from the city centre · Lagoa · Portugal
Discover Lagoa on the Algarve coast
Lagoa is known for Praia da Marinha, an international beach reference on its Atlantic coastline between Silves and Portimão. Read on for fishing villages such as Ferragudo, Benagil and Carvoeiro, a cliff-top fort and chapel at Porches and the town's convent and religious festivities.
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Lagoa is a city in the Algarve, in the district of Faro, between Silves and Portimão with a coastline on the Atlantic. According to historical sources, the first settlement grew up around a lagoon whose marshes were drained to create fertile land, which gave the town its name. Its lands were long part of the territory of Silves. Around 1550, at the request of Queen Catherine of Austria, Carmelite friars settled here and founded the Convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, and on 16 January 1773 King José I created the municipality of Lagoa and made the town a vila.
For centuries the area lived from fishing in Ferragudo, Benagil, Carvoeiro and Senhora da Rocha, from vineyards at Caramujeira and Vale d'El Rei, and from dry farming; in the early 20th century, fishing fuelled a canning industry that brought prosperity. From the 1960s tourism became the main driver of development, and the Praia da Marinha has become an international reference.
The municipality's classified monuments include the Castle of São João do Arade and the Torre da Lapa in Ferragudo, the Fort and Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Rocha on the cliffs at Porches, the Convent of Santo António, also known as São Francisco do Praxel, and the parish church of Estômbar. Religious festivities still mark the calendar, among them the feasts of Nossa Senhora da Luz, Lagoa's patron, Santo António and Nossa Senhora da Rocha.
Craft beer is a rare find in Lagoa, so it is worth keeping an eye out for something local between the beaches and the old fishing villages.
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Praia da Marinha is the best-known beach in Lagoa and has become an international reference since tourism took over as the main driver of development from the 1960s. The municipality's Atlantic coastline also takes in the old fishing communities of Ferragudo, Benagil, Carvoeiro and Senhora da Rocha.
The municipality's classified monuments include the Castle of São João do Arade and the Torre da Lapa in Ferragudo, the Fort and Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Rocha on the cliffs at Porches, the Convent of Santo António, also called São Francisco do Praxel, and the parish church of Estômbar.
Lagoa takes its name from a lagoon: according to historical sources, the first settlement grew up around it, and its marshes were gradually drained to create fertile land. The area was long part of the territory of Silves until King José I created the municipality and made the town a vila in 1773.
Religious festivities still mark the calendar in Lagoa, among them the feasts of Nossa Senhora da Luz, the town's patron, of Santo António and of Nossa Senhora da Rocha. They keep alive traditions of a municipality that for centuries lived from fishing, vineyards and dry farming.