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Portugal’s Algarve
region is blessed
with some of
continental Europe’s
finest golf courses...
Lively coastal resorts spill over ribbons of golden
sand along an Atlantic coastline punctuated by
sculpted sandstone coves, turquoise waters and
picturesque fishing villages. This is the Algarve
in southern Portugal - the country’s playground
province and one of the most popular yearround
holiday destinations in southern Europe.
The Moors, who dominated the Algarve for over
500 years from 711, called it the ‘Al-Gharb’ or the
Sunset Land, and during the last few decades,
countless visitors and especially golfers, have been
waxing lyrical about this colourful and laid-back
coastal region.
Ever since the mid-1960s, when quintessential
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