Faro, Portugal ---Portugal’s 365 Algarve has announced more than 500 new events to be held throughout 2017. The effort will stage more than a thousand presentations of music, dance, theatre, art exhibitions, activities based on the region’s heritage, and much more. The program is set to run until May 2017 in Portugal’s Algarve region.

All events are posted to 365 Algarve’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/365.Algarve.EveryDayCounts

365 Algarve provides residents and visitors a (re) discovery of the Algarve - through the arts, spaces and ideas - and increased cultural offerings, throughout the year; being able to go to more than a thousand performances, ranging from music, dance, through the animation of the heritage and the visual arts.

365 Algarve is an opportunity to travel throughout the Algarve, because in the most unexpected places visitors will find an exhibition, a concert, a performance, a festival, an artistic fusion or the possibility to taste the best of local cuisine to the sound of a guitar or an accordion.

Sea, sun and sand mark Portugal’s Algarve Region and have made it a favorite vacation destination for millions of Europeans. The climate and topography also make the Algarve Region the perfect setting for some of the finest golf courses in the world (30+ at last count), while its beaches and picturesque villages provide a diversion from the greens when necessary. The region’s climate is temperate, with little rainfall and an average 3,000 hours of sunlight each year.

Algarve 365 program is a combination of 16 towns; 51 entities involved; 63 artistic and programming projects and 1,023 performances between October 2016 and May 2017.

Promoters: Secretary of State for Tourism, Secretary of State for Culture, Tourism Portugal and the Algarve Tourism Region partner organizations: Municipalities and regional cultural associations.