Apartments in the Algarve from Which to Explore a Storied Past

The modern rental apartments in the Algarve - or al-Gharb, meaning "the West", as Portugal's southern coastal district was known to its Moorish conquerors - are an ideal base from which to explore the long and storied history of this once remote corner of Europe. Home to Phoenicians, Carthagenians, Romans and Visigoths before the Moors invaded and conquered this westernmost tip of Spain and Portugal's Iberian peninsula in the early '700s, the Algarve has become a tourist mecca to tribes of tourists from all over Europe and beyond.

From Roman ruins, to Moorish castle ramparts, to the tip of Cape St. Vincent from which Henry the Navigator in his Observatory sent his expeditions to explore and settle the New World and off which Lord Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar, the Algarve offers tourists a unique vista into the storied past of one of Europe's most distant yet most important locales.

The Algarve is now renowned as a popular tourist destination for tourism, with its unspoiled beaches, Mediterranean climate, safety and relatively low costs attracting visitors from across Portugal, Europe and the globe. Rental villas and modern Algarve apartments with their proximity to the area's rich and varied historical sites allow the tourist to reach far back into the past while enjoying all the convenience, amenities and entertainments of a modern tourist mecca.