Lagos, Portugal

LAGOS is a thriving fishing port and market centre as well as being one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Algarve, with some superb beaches within walking distance. It was a favoured residence of Henry the Navigator, who used Lagos as a base for the African trade. Europe's first slave market was built here in 1441 in the arches of the Customs House, which still stands in the Praça da República near the waterfront. On the waterfront and to the rear of the town are the remains of Lagos's once impregnable fortifications, devastated by the Great Earthquake. One rare and beautiful church which did survive was the Igreja de Santo António; decorated around 1715, its gilt and carved interior is wildly obsessive, every inch filled with a private fantasy of cherubic youths struggling with animals and fish.

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