The port is the hub of tourist activity. The 15m high obelisk erected in the centre of the Praça Dom Francisco Gomes, the wide avenues, the palm trees of Avenida da Républica - especially those in the garden Manual Bivar- give this area, with its modern overtones, a certain charm.

This museum evokes traditional life in the Algarve, by way of photographs, paintings, everyday objects, models, reconstructions, costumed mannequins.

The excavations undertaken since 1964 have brought to light under the Moorish and Visigothic remains, those of a Roman city including a Patrician villa with a private bath and cellar, a crematorium, wells, grain silos, stables, a wine press and, below, the remains of the public baths. The sea used to come as far as here and these baths were near the port (quay wall). The were used by the sailors who stopped over there.

The beach is a strip of sand, which is linked to the mainland by a bridge which runs between the ocean and the Ria Formosa. From the eastern point, you have a lovely view over Faro, the whiteness of which is reflected in the water.