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Advantages: quiet fishing village Disadvantages: ?
Santa Luzia is the fishing village in Portugal that we stayed in at Easter. We flew from Luton to Faro picked up our rental car and drove the 25 k to Santa Luzia.
Santa Luzia is near Tavira. Santa Luzia is only about 30k from the Spanish border.
Santa Luzia is a quiet fishing village on the Ria Formosa, separated from the long sandy beach by a shallow lagoon that opens out to the Atlantic Ocean. Fishing boats and a ferry use this as a harbour. The long sandy beach called Barril beach is easily accessible by either foot, a 15 minute walk or by a small tourist train, (1 euro I think. cars are not allowed. This is a blue flag beech.
. When we went at Easter the town and beach was very quiet. One day we walked onto the sand dunes behind the beach and then along the beach. There were a lot of resident and migrant birds, terns, ducks ...
mumsymary 21.08.2006 (28.08.2006)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Santa Lucia
I have been visiting Santa Luzia for more than 5 years now and enjoy the village so much that in august of 2006 i purchased a small house in rua Joao antonio chagas ferriera.
It is opposite the best little seafood restaurant in the algarve "Alcatruz". The fish in this place is so fresh it is still wriggling and the algarvean speciality of seafood and rice "arroz marisco" is unsurpassed in even the swankiest of restaurants.
The new promenade is half comleted (june 2007) and is due to be finished in the coming winter.
Everything you need can be found in the many little local shops and cafe de ville in the church square provides daily fresh baked bread.
You will not find english breakfast, beer or even cigarettes in the village though you can obtain english newspapers from about 11am onwards at the kiosk on the front in season and from ...
sjrls9 15.06.2007 (18.07.2008)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Santa Lucia
Advantages: Excellent value for money and extremely clean and tidy Disadvantages: Slightly to far to be able to walk to city centre
season, it looked like nearly all of the hotels were full and in the ones that had vacancies, the hotel rooms were very expensive. Luckily, one of the hotels recommended the Hotel SantaLucia on the outskirts of the city. At first, we thought it would not be good as we didn?t really want to stay on the outskirts as we would have preferred one in the centre so that we could visit all the attractions on foot without having to rely on the car, but as we could not find anything central, we decided to go to the Hotel SantaLucia.
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THE HOTEL SANTALUCIA
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LOCATION
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The hotel itself is found on the Santiago ? Orense road, very close to another major road ? the A9 La Coruna ? Vigo. It is approximately 13 km from Santiago de Compostela Airport (roughly a 15 minute drive).
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In reality, although it is situated on the outskirts ...
