Insider knowledge
Forming a barrier between the Ria Formosa lagoon and the open Atlantic Ocean are a number of small islands. Culatra is the favourite of Marketing Manager, Angela Viegas, who describes it as her secret refuge. It’s easily reached from Faro or Olhão by ferry or water taxi, but remains unknown to most tourists.
Laid back island life at Culatra
Angela rents a fisherman’s cottage there for her summer holidays and loves it because it’s safe for her children, aged nine and ten. There is no traffic. Once the day-trippers have left, it’s just an established community of fishing families who have lived there all their lives. “On Culatra, my kids feel free” says Angela. “Each day we order the next day’s bread, which they like to go and collect. And at the end of the day their treat is to go and buy an ice cream.
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