Olhao Seafood Festival - Festival do Marisco

Posted on August 12, 2007
Filed Under Seafood Festival

I have a confession to make: I’m a seafood addict!

I love it all — shrimp, crab, snails, lobster, conquilhas, conch, octopus, squid (aka calamari), cuddle fish, and the list goes on….some of these you may never have heard of but you’ll be introduced soon.

To my delight, every year around this time there is a seafood festival in a little fishing village right here in the Algarve. Olhao is a historic fishing village just 7km, East of Faro and their “Festival do Marisco” has become famous worldwide.

The Annual “Festival do Marisco” in Ohlao, is now in its 22nd year of providing grilling, stewing and steaming bliss for us seafood zealots. This finger licking fun-filled event kicked off Friday, August 10th and will continue through Wednesday, August 15th.

“Festival do Marisco” in Ohlao

We won’t be missing this one; Moses and I will be at the festival on Wednesday, August 15th. If you’re planning on being there, let us know, we would love to get together over some freshly grilled tigers and a Super Bock…ohh sooo good!

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3 Responses to “Olhao Seafood Festival - Festival do Marisco”

Juanes on August 15th, 2007 2:47 pm

I’m sold. You will see me in Algarve very very soon
Eddie on August 15th, 2007 3:31 pm

We hope so, would love to see you here! We’ll be at the seafood festival tonight and have some fresh off the grill pix for you :o) Seafood Festival is every year at this time, but we’re fortunate to get great fish and seafood all year round.

We also have one of the most popular fishing markets in the country about 7km from us, so never far from a fresh fish fix! ;o)
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