Vilamoura is located virtually in the middle of the Algarve coast, within 15km of the main airport at Faro.
Modern, lively and sophisticated Vilamoura has developed around its marina.
The town as known today begun to be built in the 1970s. But the Romans already knew the are, as its clear from the ruins of Cerro da Vila , preserved in the museum of the same name, beside the access road to Falésia Beach.