{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "type": "city",
  "city": "Olhão",
  "local_city_name": "Olhão",
  "country": "Portugal",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/olhao",
  "updated": "September 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "name": "The fish market",
      "local_name": "Mercado Municipal de Olhão",
      "slug": "the-fish-market",
      "city": "Olhão",
      "local_city_name": "Olhão",
      "area": "Olhão",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Two red-brick halls on the waterfront since 1916, one for fish and one for fruit and bread; the Algarve’s catch laid out under azulejo scenes of the people who bring it in.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Marina com Noélia",
      "slug": "marina-com-noelia",
      "city": "Olhão",
      "local_city_name": "Olhão",
      "area": "Olhão",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Eat",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Chef Noélia Jerónimo’s Olhão room above the Ria Formosa; the estuary and the market cooked with the plain confidence that made her name in the Algarve.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Casa Cubista",
      "slug": "casa-cubista",
      "city": "Olhão",
      "local_city_name": "Olhão",
      "area": "Olhão",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Shop",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Bold, hand-painted Portuguese ceramics and honest textiles gathered from the region’s workshops; named for the cubist houses that give the town its skyline.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Ilha da Armona",
      "local_name": "Armona",
      "slug": "ilha-da-armona",
      "city": "Olhão",
      "local_city_name": "Olhão",
      "area": "Ria Formosa",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A short ferry across the lagoon to a car-free sandbar; cross the dunes to the ocean side for a beach day deep in the Ria Formosa.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Estaminé",
      "local_name": "Ilha Deserta",
      "slug": "estamine",
      "city": "Olhão",
      "local_city_name": "Olhão",
      "area": "Ilha Deserta",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The only restaurant on the empty island at mainland Portugal’s southern tip; solar-powered and boat-only, the day’s fish grilled where the sand runs seven kilometres out.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}