Portugal

A Karen Brown Recommended Itinerary

Alluring Algarve

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Summary: This itinerary introduces you to one of Portugal's most alluring tourist areas: its southern strip called the Algarve. The name comes from the word Al-Gharb, the Arabic word for west, so-called because it was the most westerly European stronghold of the Islamic civilization that occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.