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Lagos | Algarve | Portugal
THE ALGARVE'S
WEST COAST
Experience the Algarve's remote Costa Vicentina Natural Park, aka "The West coast"
This is not the Algarve from the guidebooks & postcards...
There are two sides to the Algarve coastline:
First, there is the Algarve everyone knows: The golden cliffs and sandy beaches that you imagine when you think of "the Algarve." This is the famous, charming, beautiful South coast. You don't need my help to discover it, it's easy and unmistakable.
But there is another side to the Algarve, a hidden side that few know exist, a side you will only find if you leave the pavement, parking lots, and all signs of civilization far behind...
To experience it, you must go West...
This is The Costa Vicentina Natural Park, one of Europe's last remaining and best protected coastal wildernesses.
The entire West coast of the Algarve is a protected national treasure, the Vicentine Coast Natural Park ("Parque Natural da Costa Vicentina"), 130km of jaw-dropping natural wonder, untouched by development, undiscovered by tourism.
Here lie Portugal's tallest cliffs, most secret beaches, and most dramatic, hidden landscapes.
This is a land of soaring black cliffs, crashing white waves, howling cold winds, plunging red ravines, secluded sandy beaches, and endless raw, awe-inspiring nature. Roads here are few, trails are unmarked, beaches untouched.
This is the End of the World.
Imagine the map of Europe in your head: Now go down and down on the map to the very corner, until the land ends and the map turns blue... you've arrived here, at the Algarve's Southwestern corner, the most remote edge of the European continent.
Here lies a place thought for thousands of years to be the End of the World, and a place that still today feels like it just might be.
Now follow me on a little journey to...
Portugal,
the end of Europe...
The Algarve,
the end of Portugal...
The West Coast,
the end of the Algarve...
The cape of st. vincente,
The End of the World.
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