Algarve (Landscapes Countryside Guides S.) - Softcover

Anderson, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856912582 ISBN 13: 9781856912587

Publisher: Sunflower Books, 2004

Synopsis

Away from the busy beaches, the Algarve has a countryside full of interest and beauty, quietly awaiting discovery. From flowers and fountains, hilltops and history, to windmills and water-mills, this book will set your feet wandering to find them all. There are car tours, too, to get you out and about, searching out little-known points of interest-like the huge rose compass (rosa dos ventos) on the barren promontory of Sagres, where Prince Henry the Navigator founded his school of navigation, or the Moorish castle and old Roman bridge at Paderne. But don't think for one moment that we have turned our backs on and ignored the beautiful and rugged western coastline. Wherever it is still unspoilt and free from development, the authors have incorporated it into a walk.

"We have just returned from a week's holiday in the Algarve on which we used your book to do a number of walks. I am now writing to congratulate you on and thank you for the quality of both the walks and the descriptions of them. We also used your Samos book and were similarly impressed. It is very clear that you thoroughly research your books. Many of the delightful minor paths, which you have incorporated into walks, you will not have discovered without some effort." (E.J.M., Kingsbridge)

The best months for walking are March to May or September and October, but regular visitors enjoy walks throughout the winter as well.

4 car tours, 68 long and short walks, 20 picnic suggestions Plan of Faro, fold-out touring map.

About this title

Review:

"Good old Sunflowers, those thin blue books that walkers trust like seasoned friends from Sicily to the Azores--they never fail to find you a really good walk."

Synopsis:

'Is this the same Algarve', you may ask, 'as the Algarve of high-rise hotels, fine beaches and a coastline so famous that there is no need to look further?' Such is the beauty of the coastline, that few visitors look for more - but Brian and Eileen Anderson (the authors of this guidebook) did. They say, "we found a countryside full of interest and beauty, quietly awaiting discovery. From flowers and fountains, hilltops and history, to windmills and water-mills, we can set your feet wandering to find them all". There are car tours, too, to get you out and about, searching out little-known points of interest - like the huge rose compass (rosa dos ventos) on the barren promontory of Sagres, where Prince Henry the Navigator founded his school of navigation, or the Moorish castle and old Roman bridge at Paderne. A guidebook that will add a new dimension to your Algarve holiday.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sunflower Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1856912582
• ISBN 13: 9781856912587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 136