In the week of the start of the 34th edition of the Olhão Seafood Festival, one of the biggest gastronomic events in the south of the country, which will take place from August 9 to 14, 2019, preparations begin at Jardim Pescador Olhanense. is transfigured to receive in the best way the tens of thousands of Olhanenses and tourists, for whom the fair is already an obligatory crossing point in the Algarve summer. For more than 3 decades, the Olhão Seafood Festival is considered one of the most popular summer events on the Algarve coast. If the Algarve is one of the main tourist attractions in the country, where many Portuguese go on holiday in August, it is at this time that Olhão has its biggest feast for Portuguese and foreigners. One of the main tourist posters of Olhão and the region, where gastronomy and music are pillars, the Seafood Festival is already a must for both the Algarve and the many tourists who are in the Algarve in August. aim to delight in the best seafood and bivalves, made at the moment and as only the Olhanenses know, with the wonderful scenery of the Ria Formosa as background, served with the accompaniment, on stage, of a musical poster that brings annually to the city cubist a poster composed by prominent national and international artists. There are plenty of types of seafood that can be tasted for six days in the dozens of restaurants that join the Olhanense Fisherman's Garden in the center of Olhão, this being one of the main points of the year for all those who live not only fishing but also restoration in Olhão. Grilled prawns, crab cakes, seafood rice, paellas, lobsters, lobsters, clams or oysters continue to make mouth watering visitors to the Seafood Festival. All these flavors can be tasted in a space with thousands of seats In addition to the seafood that is king in this festival, there are many who travel in these six days to the Seafood Festival to see the best artists who tread national soil by the height of summer. The concerts of more than 30 years of the main national bands and essentially lusophone musicians from Africa or Brazil are historical. Even strangers or all those who live in the Algarve and do not know how to speak Portuguese will enjoy listening to a good rock or fado concert, there is always a different genre with each passing day. The 34th edition is no exception, with Matias Damásio, HMB, Killer Queen, Paula Fernandes, Ludmila and Resistência, not forgetting DJ Christian F and DJ Wilson Honrado, this last son from the land of Olhanense and well-known announcer of Rádio Comercial a the area near the Ria Formosa. source:https://8700-olhao.com/festival-do-marisco-2019/