Alcoutim

Distant and rural, Alcoutim is a municipality with about three thousand inhabitants, organized in 5 districts: Alcoutim, Giões, Martim Longo, Pereiro and Vaqueiros. A Portuguese village that offers a variety of challenges to those who dare to visit it. It is Algarve’s less populated municipality however it is the one that most attracts visitors because it is the starting point for the Via Algarviana, a pedestrian path with about 300kmts length that goes across inland between Alcoutim and Cabo de São Vicente. Furthermore, located only 40 kilometers from Spain it becomes very easy to be” in between” these two countries by the Guadiana river. For centuries Alcoutim was surrounded with walls. Despite these are not there any longer it is still possible to see in the steep and narrow streets the quiet face of a mountain village. Walking by here is to find out secular houses and ancient traditions frozen in time. Alcoutim is a calm and quiet harbour, in full harmony with Nature, away from the bustle of the more agitated places in Algarve.