Lagos
Lagos is a city of 31,000 people in the Algarve, in the south of Portugal. It is dominated by up to 50 metre high limestone and sandstone cliffs. The city is located at the mouth of the Bensafrim river, and has a beautiful old town with narrow streets and many pubs and restaurants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 19,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Also known as: “Lagos Municipality” and “Lagos, Portugal”
- Neighbors: Aljezur, Monchique, Portimão, and Vila do Bispo
Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lagos Station and Câmara Municipal de Lagos.
Lagos Station
Railway station
Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lagos railway station is the western terminus of the Algarve line, which serves the city of Lagos, in the Faro District, in Portugal. It opened on the 7th of July 1922. The building was replaced by a new structure in 2003.
Câmara Municipal de Lagos
Town hall
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Câmara Municipal de Lagos is a town hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bairro de Casas para Famílias Pobres em Lagos and Bairro de Santo Amaro I.
Bairro de Casas para Famílias Pobres em Lagos
Neighborhood
Photo: Ajpvalente, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bairro de Casas para Famílias Pobres em Lagos is a neighborhood.
Bairro de Santo Amaro I
Neighborhood
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bairro de Santo Amaro I is a neighborhood.
Lagos
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.1028° or 37° 6′ 10″ northLongitude
-8.6729° or 8° 40′ 22″ westPopulation
19,300Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)Open location code
8C9H483G+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 25277577OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8010518Wikidata ID
Q732548
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Lagos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاغوس”
- Armenian: “Լագուշ”
- Asturian: “Lagos”
- Basque: “Lagos”
- Catalan: “Lagos”
- Cebuano: “Lagos”
- Chechen: “Лагуш”
- Chinese: “Lagos”
- Chinese: “拉古什”
- Czech: “Lagos”
- Danish: “Lagos”
- Dutch: “Lagos (Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Lagos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاجوس”
- Esperanto: “Lagos (Portugalio)”
- Esperanto: “Lagos”
- Estonian: “Lagos”
- Finnish: “Lagos”
- French: “Castelo de Lagos”
- French: “Lagos”
- Friulian: “Lagos”
- Galician: “Lagos”
- Georgian: “ლაგუში”
- German: “Lagos”
- Hausa: “Lagos, Portugal”
- Hebrew: “לאגוש”
- Hungarian: “Lagos”
- Irish: “Lagos”
- Italian: “Lagos”
- Japanese: “ラーゴス”
- Japanese: “ラゴシュ (ポルトガル)”
- Japanese: “ラゴス”
- Japanese: “ラゴス”
- Korean: “라구스”
- Ladino: “Lagos”
- Latvian: “Laguša”
- Lithuanian: “Lagosas”
- Lithuanian: “Lagošas”
- Lombard: “Lagos (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Lagos”
- Luxembourgish: “Lagos”
- Malagasy: “Lagos (Portugal)”
- Malagasy: “Lagos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lagos”
- Mirandese: “Lagos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lagos i Portugal”
- Norwegian: “Lagos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lagos”
- Persian: “لاگوس”
- Polish: “Lagos”
- Portuguese: “Lagos”
- Portuguese: “Município de Lagos”
- Romanian: “Lagos, Portugalia”
- Romanian: “Lagos”
- Russian: “Лагуш”
- Serbian: “Lagos”
- Serbian: “Лагос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lagos (Portugal)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lagos”
- Slovak: “Lagos”
- Slovenian: “Lagos”
- Spanish: “Lagos”
- Swedish: “Lagos, Portugal”
- Swedish: “Lagos”
- Tatar: “Лагуш”
- Thai: “ลากุช”
- Turkish: “Lagos, Portekiz”
- Turkish: “Lagos”
- Ukrainian: “Лагуш”
- Vietnamese: “Lagos, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Vietnamese: “Lagos”
- Volapük: “Lagos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lagos, Portugal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lagos”
- “Lagos”
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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 “Lagos”. Photo: Jose A., CC BY 2.0.