News in the Algarve

 

 

 Reproduced from 'The Portugal News, Portugal's National Newspaper in English'.

 

 


 

 

Downtown Faro revolutionised.... According to recent reports, Faro's downtown riverside area could soon be the target of extensive upgrading works that will completely transform one of the city's most popular areas.

 

 

To the north of the EVA hotel and bus station, the municipal car park will remain as it presently is, though will see an auditorium and more shops take shape around it.

Around the docks and Bívar gardens more restaurants will be built and the petrol station will be closed and re-homed in a new location. On the opposite side of the dock, by the river mouth, more recreational docks will be constructed, along with a walkway from the restaurants that already exist on the docks, all the way to the train station.

To finish off the project, the Institute for Ports and Maritime Transports (IPTM) is currently devising a project to up grade the port itself.

Revamping Faro's riverfront has long been one of the City Hall's main missions, though only now, with the collaboration of the IPTM, does it look set to become reality.

No official dates for the works to commence have, as yet, been confirmed, but Faro Mayor José Apolinário hopes that "by next June or July there will be a project ready to be carried out".

Reports state that the financial costs will be partly footed by Communitarian funds.