From the west (Portimão/Lagos)
From Silves
Location Map
View large detailed map
Please note that there are now electronic tolls operating on the A22 motorway. If you are hiring a car, the rental company should give you information about this. Otherwise full details can be found here.
a) As you leave Faro airport, follow the signs to the A22 motorway, the main east-west highway which links the Algarve to Spain.
b) After 3 kilometres, follow the signs to the motorway to Lisbon (Lisboa), Portimão and Loulé. This takes you on to the main N125 heading north, away from Faro.
c) After a further 4.5 kilometres bear left, continuing to follow the signs to the A22; the right fork is the N125 to Almancil.
d) After a further 3.5 kilometres, join the A22 motorway; follow the signs to Lisbon, Portimão and Albufeira. After 22 kilometres you pass the intersection where the motorway from Lisbon (A2) joins the A22.
e) Stay on the motorway for a further 14 kilometres, until exit 7 for Alcantarilha.
f) When you come off the motorway you come to a big roundabout. Take the first exit following the sign to Silves.
g) Follow this road, passing two roundabouts and the new Amendoeira golf course. One kilometre later you reach a turning signposted to Lagoa. Turn left.
h) Stay on this road, passing through the village of Fontes da Matosa, for about 4 kilometres.
i) You will see the motorway viaduct ahead of you. Turn right just before you reach the viaduct. Signpost to "Casa das Oliveiras" pointing right.
j) Continue up this road, over a stream, ignoring the first turning on the right, until you reach a bridge over a canal. Turn right immediately after crossing the canal, before the small house called "Casa Viana". Signpost to "Casa das Oliveiras" pointing right. "Casa das Oliveiras" is 200m up the gravel road on the right.
