Praia da Luz

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Praia da Luz ("Light Beach") is a beach located about 3km from Lagos (Algarve, Portugal). It is a holiday beach for many Portuguese, English, French and German people. Praia da Luz is an intermediate size beach with two disctinct zones: the fine, clean and white sand characteristic of Algarve beaches and the “rock zone”, where you can lay down too or look at the beautiful Mother Nature creations. The water is clean and transparent but the temperature is somewhat variable. This is a Blue Flag beach.

Praia da Luz (also known as "Luz de Lagos" or "Luz") is also the name of the tourist village. It's fishing tradition now only found in isolated pockets to the west, has several holiday-villa complexes.

The church of Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of the Light), from which the village takes its name, was badly damaged in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and was repaired by local contributions.

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