Faro

Tavira

Discover the 8 parishes that make up the municipality of Tavira, Faro district.

8 Parishes

27,523 Inhabitants

126m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Tavira

Don't visit just one. Here's a route of 8 parishes ordered geographically for a perfect weekend getaway.

União das freguesias de Tavira (Santa Maria e Santiago)

União das freguesias de Tavira (Santa Maria e Santiago)

15,432 inh.

Conceição

Conceição

1,714 inh.

Cabanas de Tavira

Cabanas de Tavira

1,714 inh.

Santa Luzia

Santa Luzia

1,589 inh.

Luz de Tavira

Luz de Tavira

2,365 inh.

Santo Estêvão

Santo Estêvão

2,365 inh.

Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo

Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo

1,873 inh.

Cachopo

Cachopo

471 inh.

This route is calculated geographically to minimise travel. Perfect for discovering the municipality at your own pace.

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Parishes
of Tavira

8 parishes

Cabanas de Tavira

Cabanas de Tavira

Cross the Ria Formosa by painted fishing boat to fossil-dune sands and fortress breakfasts back in t

Cachopo

Cachopo

Schist hamlets, Neolithic stones and slow-ferment bread above Tavira’s ridge

Conceição

Conceição

Between Ria Formosa salt marsh and Cerro de São Miguel, Conceício offers €4 house wine, silent stree

Luz de Tavira

Luz de Tavira

19th-century salt warehouses, Arab water channels and a 72-metre-wide beach at Portugal’s end

Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo

Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo

Whitewashed ridge village above Tavira, scented by corksmoke and rosemary broth

Santa Luzia

Santa Luzia

Ria Formosa channels lap pastel houses where clay-pot fishermen land silk-scarf octopus at dawn

Santo Estêvão

Santo Estêvão

Walk from a working windmill to flamingo lagoons, then taste corn porridge laced with cockles in thi

União das freguesias de Tavira (Santa Maria e Santiago)

União das freguesias de Tavira (Santa Maria e Santiago)

Santa Maria & Santiago parishes echo with mosque-turned-church stones and salt-air history

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