Webcam Albufeira. Alfagar Aparthotel
Albufeira is the largest, busiest and most energetic of all the resort towns that overlook the southern coast of the Algarve in Portugal. This welcoming place offers stunning beaches, a mild climate, a wide variety of restaurants and a bustling nightlife. All this has turned what was once a humble fishing village into the most popular vacation spot in the Algarve.
Albufeira was known as Baltum in Roman times, then renamed Al Buhera by Moorish settlers in the 8th century. Finally, in the mid-13th century the city was taken from the Moors by the Knights of the Order of Santiago. Albufeira was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1755, when the sea waves destroyed almost all the buildings along the coast.
Until the 1960s Albufeira was a small fishing village.
One because of a decline in its catch had to convert it into a tourist resort, and today Albufeira with a population of about 13 thousand people in the holiday season is growing to about 300 thousand residents. But the old town with its narrow cobblestone streets and typical one-story houses lining the road, still retains the atmosphere of a cozy village.
