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Flat/Apartment Olhão

Portugal · Algarve · Olhão

Price

€180,000

Bedrooms

1-3

Type

Flat/Apartment

Ref

P199679

Property Details

Country
Portugal, Algarve
Location
Olhão
Type
New
Style
Flat/Apartment
Bedrooms
1 - 3
Size
0 sq m
Garden
Not Specified
Terrace
Not Specified
Plot Size
0
Features: Pool - Community

Flat/Apartment Olhão

Located in the city of Olhão, Marina Village is a Project designed and built facing the ocean, allowing a magnificent view of the Ria Formosa, one of Portugals most unique and singular collection of islands and natural reserves. To discover the hidden charm of Olhão you have to climb to the top of the main church tower. Only then you can see the hundreds of roof terraces - the 'açoteias' -, typical of the Algarve, which create a unique urban panorama, as if a multitude of cubes had been scattered across a flat surface, their regular shapes repeating each other in three dimensions. Being only 14 km from Faro Airport, a 15 minute drive, any tour of Olhão should end among the refreshning gardens and open air cafés to be found along the quayside. But first, take a few minutes and plunge into the colourful atmosphere of the market, where the stands sell fish straight from the sea, fresh vegetables and sweet fruit from the farms of the countryside. Regular boat connections with the islands of Armona and Culatra provide with an opportunity to take a trip along the Ria and visit its attractive beaches.

One of the Algarve´s main fishing ports, Olhão (read as 'olhaun') has square whitewashed houses with flat roof terraces and chimneys that are evocative of Moorish architecture. Behind the parish church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, from the 17th century, the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos is where the wives of fishermen gather to pray for their safety when the weather is stormy. But the town´s main attraction is its market, one of the most animated and picturesque of the Algarve, with an enormous variety of seafood but also local farmers selling such products as fruit, honey and live chickens. Nearby, the village of Fuzeta is like Olhão on a small scale and is well appreciated by windsurfers.

A few kilometres inland, Moncarapacho is proud of its church of Santo Cristo, with a beautiful doorway and painted arches. In the region, the Parque Natural da Ria Formosa is considered the most important sanctuary of wildlife in the Algarve. Its lagoons, marshes, channels and islets are abundant in shellfish such as cockles, clams and oysters and shelter, amongst other species, a variety of birds such as the cattle egret, the white stork, the purple gallinule, the red-crested pochard, etc. This natural reserve stretches along 60 kilometres (40 miles) and its rich ecosystem is ideal for the development of varied fauna and flora.

- Parking: Garage

- View: Sea

- Orientation: South

- Distance Sea: Walking

- Distance Airport: 15 mins

- Distance Golf: 15 mins

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