Green Wave - Albufeira T1

10/10/2024

01/09/2024

September 6, 7 & 8 at Albufeira Fisherman's Beach square.

The city's popular festival returns on September 6, 7 and 8 with seafood galore and live entertainment.

08/05/2024

Carvoeiro boardwalk and surrounding area is stunning 😎

25/04/2024

Carnation Revolution in Portugal 🇵🇹
25 April 1974 🇵🇹
50th anniversary today 🇵🇹

The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon,[2] producing major social, economic, territorial, demograp...

16/04/2024

25th April is the 50 year celebration of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal.
A commemorative €2 coin to be struck.

22nd APRIL - LAUNCH OF THE COMMEMORATIVE COIN OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 25TH OF APRIL

On Monday, April 22, Banco de Portugal will release the coins into circulation.
There are 500,000 commemorative two-euro coins to be distributed during the Carnation Revolution celebration period.

“Distribution to the public will be carried out through the banks, Banco de Portugal treasuries and Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda stores”, reads on the Banco de Portugal website.

On the coin, a carnation and 50 lines are drawn to represent “the different ideas and projects that were born that day”, accompanied by a phrase from a poem Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen - “Esta é a madrugada que eu esperava” from the poem “O Nome das Coisas”.

08/04/2024

Wine Festival 🍷🍷
Come and sample some incredible wines from all over Portugal 🇵🇹 🍷😎

The Portuguese Wine Show will take place in Albufeira this weekend, bringing hundreds of Portugal’s best wines to the Algarve.

30/03/2024

😱 Waterspout looms over Vasco da Gama bridge... Lisbon weather:

Video shows the waterspout on the Tagus Estuary on Thursday, in southern Lisbon.

07/03/2024

Wine festival 12-14 April 🍷
Sample wine from all over Portugal 🇵🇹 🍷

09/02/2024

View the beach and current weather... live

Live We**am on top of Sol e Mar Hotel looking down on Albufeira main beach, Praia do Peneco or Tunnel Beach

08/01/2024

Please use water sparingly 💧
Drought in Algarve !
https://www.facebook.com/100068156557258/posts/686078850340661/

CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR DROUGHT IN THE ALGARVE TO BE PRESENTED LATER THIS MONTH

"WE ARE CLOSE TO CATASTROPIC SITUATION - IT IS VERY WORRYING" - PRESIDENT OF AMAL

Lisbon, 08 Jan 2024 (Lusa) – The Portuguese Environment Agency hopes to present a contingency plan this month with new water consumption rules in the Algarve, which is experiencing the worst drought on record.

Speaking to Lusa, APA vice-president José Pimenta Machado admitted that the contingency plan will penalize agriculture more, but the quotas have not yet been defined and will be coordinated with local entities.

“This year, in the Algarve, we are going through the worst drought ever, we have never been in this situation, with the lowest levels of reservoir reserves ever and the same thing in groundwater”, a “consequence of ten years of drought” continued, said Pimenta Machado.

“The priority use is human use and agriculture will have a greater cut”, added Pimenta Machado.

“We are designing a plan” of “continuous evaluation” and “listening to the sectors - agriculture, urban sector, tourism – and working with them to define” the actions to be taken, seeking to “define water cuts, whether for the urban sector, whether for tourism or agriculture”, said the official who did not want to anticipate the values in question, although he admits that the biggest impact will be on agricultural production.

“The plan will be presented very soon” and is “for days”. Next week, an inter-ministerial drought commission will be held and then the document will be closed to be presented in the region, always with the “central objective of not running out of water for the population”.

The six reservoirs in the Algarve are at 25% of their capacity, 20 percentage points less than in the same period last year, with a total of 90 cubic hectometres less water.

Portugal has two water realities. In the north, the reservoirs have an average water level of 75%, while south of the Tagus, namely in the southwest of Alentejo and in the Algarve, the “situation is critical” because the “rain did not allow the problems to be repaired”.

Of the ten driest years ever, six were after 2000 and the last 20 years have seen a 25% reduction in precipitation, he added.
Pimenta Machado highlighted that this contingency plan aims to respond to the current water stress, but a series of projects are underway, to be financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), which will include more permanent measures. Among these measures, he highlighted “portable desalination plants” or the increased use of water from Wastewater Treatment Plants, particularly for golf courses.

Furthermore, other major measures are “making sea water drinkable”, through the first large desalination plant for the Albufeira area, with a capacity of 16 million cubic meters, and the transfer in Sota-vento, with a connection between the Pomarão and Guadiana.

Meanwhile: The Portuguese Environment Agency should propose rules to reduce water consumption in the Algarve by 70% for the agricultural sector and 15% for urban consumers, the president of the Intermunicipal Community told Lusa .

“The situation is very worrying. We are close to a catastrophic situation and we have to start saving water seriously”, the president of the Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL), António Miguel Pina, told the Lusa agency.

31/12/2023

Happy New Year everyone 🥂 🍾

The Municipality of Albufeira expects an audience of over 300,000 tonight for New Year's Eve.  

25/12/2023

Merry Xmas
Feliz Natal