Car Rental in Faro
General Information about Faro
With a car rental you can explore the capital of Algarve in Portugal, Faro, which is a modern, lively city with attractive shopping precincts, good restaurants and a frenetic nightlife.
Particularly attractive is the old part of the city surrounded still by the Roman walls. Inside a spacious open square that was once the site of the Roman Forum is a 13th Century Cathedral that faces the 18th Century Episcopal palace. Faro is also the home of the Ria Formosa lagoon, a nature reserve of over 17.000 hectares and a stopping place for hundreds of different birds during the spring and autumn migratory periods. The beach is almost 7 Kms distant from the city and is a long sandy spit reached by crossing a bridge not far from the International Faro Airport.
With your rental car you can also drive to other beautiful cities of the country, Lisbon and Oporto.
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Use a rental car to visit all the interesting places in Faro like, Cidade Velha (old town), Faro's small walled old town is a pleasant place to wander and includes some of the city's main attractions including the cathedral and Archaeology Museum. Visit also the Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, the most visited and spookiest church in Faro. The church is lavishly decorated inside although the main attraction is the small Capela dos Ossos (chapel of bones) which was built in the 19th century with the bones of 1245 former monks.
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More places to visit in Faro with your rental car, is the Museu Arqueológica that features exhibits of Roman, Phoenician and Carthaginian relics plus an excellent collection of azulejos (Portuguese tiles). Also the Arco da Vila that is the northern arch in the old town walls and ramparts. It can be found just at the southern end of the Manuel Bivar Park. It is is a monumental arch which was designed by the Italian architect Francisco Xavier Fabri.
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