Barranco das Belharucas Beach, Sandy beach in Albufeira, Portugal.
Barranco das Belharucas is a sand beach along the Algarve coast featuring golden shores and clear water backed by limestone and clay cliffs. The shoreline extends roughly 2 kilometers and creates a striking natural backdrop.
The beach earned the Blue Flag certification and later the Golden Flag award in 2000 for maintaining high environmental and management standards. These honors reflect a commitment to protecting this coastal area.
The beach welcomes people with different preferences, offering spaces where everyone can feel at home. This reflects a tradition of inclusivity found along the Portuguese coast.
The beach has restrooms, showers, restaurants, and water sports facilities available mainly from May through October. It's smart to check specific opening times before your visit, especially outside summer months.
The rock faces shelter nesting European bee-eaters, colorful birds that breed in this area. Stone pines and juniper shrubs grow along natural ravines carved by erosion, giving the landscape its distinctive character.
Location: Albufeira e Olhos de Água
GPS coordinates: 37.08964,-8.17841
Latest update: December 6, 2025 17:47
Inland Algarve holds nature reserves, medieval castles, and Roman ruins that together form a wide picture of Portuguese history and nature. Monchique has thermal springs, Silves shows a castle built of red sandstone, and Faro contains a chapel lined with human bones. Natural parks like Ria Formosa provide habitat for many bird species, while historic villages, coastal fortresses, and lighthouses mark the landscape. Travelers through this region encounter places like Cabo de São Vicente, where land ends at the southwestern tip of Europe, the cliffs of Ponta da Piedade near Lagos, or the ruins of Paderne Castle. Caldas de Monchique invites bathing in warm spring water, the Percurso dos Sete Vales Suspensos follows the coast through cut valleys, and Igreja do Carmo in Faro holds another bone chapel. Between these are beaches like Praia da Marinha and Praia do Barril, Roman excavations such as Cerro da Vila in Quarteira, and Palácio de Estoi, a pink palace from the 19th century. The Algarve connects coast and interior, history and nature in a way best explored on foot.
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Portugal Masters
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Cerro da Vila
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Praia da Oura
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Miradouro do Pau da Bandeira
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Praia dos Pescadores
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Praia dos Alemães
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Praia dos Olhos de Água
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Vilamoura Lightouse
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Torre da Medronheira
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Igreja de São Sebastião, Albufeira
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Câmara Municipal, Albufeira
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Tribunal Judicial de Albufeira
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