This is definitely the place to be if you enjoy fresh sea food – and at very reasonable prices too! A busy, lively city, Olhão preserves in its old quarter the charming matrix of narrow cobbled streets that is the tiny fishing village around which the modern city of Olhão has grown.

Here, in this enchantingly antiquated world of fishermen’s cottages, you can dreamily wander between the small blue-trimmed white houses, with their kaleidoscope flower boxes and occasional bird cages, through an array of intriguing, maze-like streets before arriving at the old quayside and the morning fish market.