{"id":743,"date":"2010-03-13T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-03-13T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T10:04:05","slug":"lagos-algarve-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/lagos-algarve-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Algarve Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the busiest tourist centres on Portugal\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/algarve.html\">Algarve<\/a> coastline, Lagos was in fact one the capital of the region and its harbour welcomed in the great Henry the Navigator as he returned from his historic voyages. The ancient fortress and sections of the old city walls survived the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, as did a couple of its churches. In the old town, you will still find narrow, cobbled streets, which look much as they have for centuries. To view the best of the town\u2019s attractions head for the Pra\u00e7a da Republica, the centre of life in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/lagos.html\">Lagos<\/a>. Modern day Lagos is a bustling holiday resort, popular with the younger set, it offers a superb sandy beach, plenty of bars, shops and restaurants, a good choice of facilities and a wonderful climate, with Lagos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/lagos-portugal-weather.html\">weather<\/a> ideal for summer holidays and also suitable for winter breaks and sporting holidays. Lagos is at the western end of the Algarve, near to Portimao, and provides a good base for exploring this part of the region, other towns worth a visit include Sagres and Portimao.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/lagos-map.html\">Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the busiest tourist centres on Portugal\u2019s Algarve coastline, Lagos was in fact one the capital of the region and its harbour welcomed in the great Henry the Navigator as he returned from his historic voyages. The ancient fortress and sections of the old city walls survived the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,38,49],"tags":[72,516,73,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}