Portugal
Algarve
Faro District

Faro

Faro is a city in the region of that is a popular sun destination in the summer, and a base for exploring the surrounding area.
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  • Type: City with 47,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Faro Municipality” and “Faro, Portugal”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio de São Luís and Faro railway station.

Stadium
Photo: PauloMoreira, Public domain.
The , also known as Santo Stadium, is a multi-use stadium located in Faro, , . It serves as the home stadium for Sporting Clube Farense, a football club based in Faro.

Railway station
Photo: Ajpvalente, CC BY 3.0.
Faro station is the main railway station in the city of Faro, Portugal, operated by Comboios de Portugal. It opened on 1 July 1889. The line to the north-west is electrified, using overhead catenary.

Church
Photo: Abrget47j, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Faro, Portugal. The cathedral was consecrated in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the late 13th century by the Archbishop of Braga.

Faro

Latitude
37.0163° or 37° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
-7.9352° or 7° 56′ 7″ west
Population
47,600
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
FAO
United Nations Location Code
PT FAO
Open location code
8C9J2387+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25254936
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2268339
Wiki­data ID
Q159457
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Faro” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Faro”
  • Arabic: “شنتمرية الغرب”
  • Arabic: “فارو”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարո”
  • Asturian: “Faro”
  • Balinese: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Basque: “Faro”
  • Belarusian: “Фару”
  • Bengali: “ফারু”
  • Breton: “Faro”
  • Bulgarian: “Фаро”
  • Bulgarian: “Фару”
  • Catalan: “Faro”
  • Catalan: “Shantamariyya al-Gharbiyya”
  • Catalan: “Shantamariyyat al-Gharb”
  • Catalan: “Shantamriyyat al-Gharb”
  • Cebuano: “Faro”
  • Chechen: “Фару”
  • Chinese: “Faro”
  • Chinese: “法魯-洛萊”
  • Chinese: “法魯”
  • Chinese: “法鲁”
  • Croatian: “Faro”
  • Czech: “Faro”
  • Danish: “Faro”
  • Dutch: “Faro (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Faro”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Faro”
  • Esperanto: “Faro”
  • Estonian: “Faro”
  • Extremaduran: “Faro”
  • Extremaduran: “Faru”
  • Finnish: “Faro”
  • French: “Faro”
  • Galician: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Faro”
  • Georgian: “ფარუ”
  • German: “Faro”
  • Greek: “Φάρο”
  • Gujarati: “ફેરો”
  • Hebrew: “פארו”
  • Hindi: “फेरो”
  • Hungarian: “Faro”
  • Icelandic: “Faro”
  • Indonesian: “Faro”
  • Irish: “Faro”
  • Italian: “Faro”
  • Japanese: “ファーロ”
  • Japanese: “ファロ”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಯಾರೋ”
  • Korean: “파루 지방자치단체”
  • Korean: “파루”
  • Ladino: “Faro”
  • Latin: “Ossonoba”
  • Latvian: “Faro”
  • Latvian: “Faru”
  • Lithuanian: “Faras”
  • Lombard: “Faro (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Faro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Faro”
  • Malagasy: “Faro (Portugal)”
  • Malagasy: “Faro”
  • Malay: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Faro”
  • Maltese: “Faro”
  • Manx: “Faro, y Phortiugal”
  • Manx: “Faro”
  • Marathi: “फॅरो”
  • Mazanderani: “فارو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Faro”
  • Mingrelian: “ფარუ”
  • Moksha: “Фару”
  • Northern Frisian: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faro”
  • Norwegian: “Faro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Faro”
  • Ossetian: “Фару”
  • Persian: “فارو”
  • Polish: “Faro”
  • Portuguese: “Faro”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Faro”
  • Romanian: “Faro”
  • Russian: “Фару”
  • Scots: “Faro, Portugal”
  • Scots: “Faro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Faro”
  • Serbian: “Фаро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Faro”
  • Sinhala: “ෆාරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Faro”
  • Slovenian: “Faro”
  • Spanish: “Faro”
  • Swedish: “Faro”
  • Tamil: “பிஹாரோ”
  • Tatar: “Фару”
  • Telugu: “ఫారో”
  • Tetum: “Faro”
  • Thai: “ฟารู”
  • Turkish: “Faro”
  • Ukrainian: “Фару”
  • Urdu: “فارو، پرتگال”
  • Venetian: “Faro”
  • Vietnamese: “Faro”
  • Volapük: “Faro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Faro”
  • Welsh: “Faro”
  • Wu Chinese: “法鲁”
  • “Faro”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Faro”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.