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Community news: Lagoa area connected to car-free route
The route aims to connect Sagres Fortress to Vila Real de Santo António at the border with Spain with an ecological corridor where motor vehicles are banned, except when the path crosses urban areas with low rates of traffic.
Along its 214 kilometres, the Ecovia do Algarve crosses 12 of the region’s 16 districts and includes pavements and land paths. The signs can be horizontal and vertical, the blue lines only being used in paved areas.
Across Lagoa, the route includes urban and rural areas. The path goes from Ferragudo, near the old bridge in the western side of the district, to Armação de Pêra.
Along the way, visitors are informed about the special monuments and places of interest like the Senhora da Rocha or Sítio das Fontes.
The Ecovia do Algarve project is part of a larger ecological corridor that is being built by the European Cyclist’s Federation (ECF) in the European continent, named EuroVelo.
The Algarve route is the EuroVelo 1 and, in total, there are 12 other routes covering 63,505 kilometres.
If you would like to know more about the Ecovia do Algarve and the European Cyclist’s Federation, please visit: http://www.ecoviasalgarve.org/ (this website is only in Portuguese) and http://www.ecf.com.
The Eurovelo connection
North-South Routes
EuroVelo 1 – Atlantic Coast: North Cape - Sagres 8,186 km
EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route: Trondheim - Santiago de Compostela 5,122 km
EuroVelo 5 – Via Romea Francigena: London - Rome and Brindisi 3,900 km
EuroVelo 7 – Middle Europe Route: North - Malta 6,000 km
EuroVelo 9 – Baltic Sea and Adriatic Sea (Amber Route): Gdansk - Pula 1,930 km
EuroVelo 11 – East Europe Route: North Cape - Athens 5,964 km
West –East Route
EuroVelo 2 – Capitals Route: Galway - Moscow 5,500 km
EuroVelo 4 – Roscoff - Kiev 4,000 km
EuroVelo 6 – Atlantic - Black Sea (Rivers Route): Nantes - Constanta 3,653 km
EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route: Cadiz - Athens - Cyprus 5,388 km
Circuits
EuroVelo 10 – Baltic Sea Cycle Route (Hans’s circuit): 7,930 km
EuroVelo 12 – North Sea Cycle Route: 5,932 km
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