Napoleon took advantage of the weak king by suggesting the two nations conquer and divide Portugal, with France and Spain each taking a third of the spoils, and the final third going to the Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy, along with the title Prince of the Algarve.
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The 2010 1000 km of Algarve was the third round of the 2010 Le Mans Series season.
Although this was Portugal's first time hosting a racewalking event of this size, it became another high profile athletics competition to be staged in the Algarve region, after the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 2003 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and several editions of the European Champion Clubs Cup.
The 2011 Volta ao Algarve is the 37th edition of the Volta ao Algarve cycling stage race.
A local culinary specialty is a rich steamed stew dish of local shellfish, traditionally referred to as Cataplana (named for the cookware used in its preparation), which is a well known dish from the Algarve.
In 1218, it received its foral from King Afonso II, and handed over to the Knights of Santiago, who made it their headquarters during their advance into the Alentejo and Algarve.
In James A. Michener's novel The Drifters, Alte serves as the main setting of the chapter Algarve, being recommended to the protagonists by a customs officer who wants them "to know Portugal at its best."
Vila Nova de Cacela, a civil parish of the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, Algarve, Portugal.
The students' festival (Semana Académica da Universidade do Algarve), organized every year by students from the University of the Algarve, is also an important event in Faro.
After playing two years apiece in his country with Clube Ferroviário de Nampula and Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene, in June 2010, Pelembe signed with Portimonense Sporting Clube in Portugal, with the Algarve club freshly returned to the top division.
International School São Lourenço (ISSL) is an international school located in Almancil in Algarve, Portugal.
Several of his major works, such as the “Pastelaria Mexicana” (cafe), the “Palissi Galvani” shop and the Hotel Florida in Lisbon, the Hotel Garbe, the Hotel da Baleeira and the Hotel Globo in the Algarve or the Chamber of Commerce of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau include conceptually integrated visual arts interventions, some created by himself.
The episodes were filmed on-location in and around Albufeira on the Portuguese Algarve.
From the moment he began his career as head coach, Manuel Balela started to put into practice all the teachings he had assimilated throughout his professional experience as a football player and assistant coach, having prepared himself technically at the highest level and obtaining the Coach Training Course at Level 4 and following on to become, since 1993, Resident Trainer of the Algarve Football Association - Associação de Futebol do Algarve.
Maria Cavaco Silva was born Maria Alves da Silva, to Francisco dos Santos Silva and Adelina de Jesus Pincho, on 19 March 1938, in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Silves (Algarve).
Martim Longo is a Portuguese civil parish/freguesia in the municipality/concelho of Alcoutim, on the eastern side of the Algarve, 134.14 km² in area, and with 1,384 inhabitants (2001).
Serra de Monchique, a chain of mountains in the western part of the Algarve region of Portugal
:*Castle of Paderne, a 12th-century fortification located in the civil parish of Paderne, municipality of Albufeira, in the Portuguese Algarve.
Portimão is the most important urbanized city in the Barlavento Algarvio (the western Algarve), supporting a size-able population with harbour and a small airfield (Aerodromo de Portimão) of its own (the larger Faro International Airport is in the nearby district capital of Faro.
Vasco Annes da Costa, the first named "Corte-Real", fronteiro-mor of Tavira in the Algarve, ancestor of the Corte-Real explorers and captains of Terceira Island of the Azores - to bring the number up to 'thirteen', as originally stated by Vasconcelos.
Vale Verde International School (VVIS) is an international school located in Burgau, Algarve, Portugal.
Vila Real de Santo António Municipality, a city and municipality in the Algarve, Portugal.