Meia Praia is a beach located in Lagos, in the Algarve, Portugal. It has the Blue Flag and has all the support and services on the beach. It has a large beach (c. 5.5km).
At its eastern end there is the Forte da Meia Praia, which ensured the defense of the bay of Lagos in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Historians affirm that it was in front of this beach that the galleons that transported the treasure of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma, sank by the soldiers of the conqueror Hernán Cortés, were shipwrecked in 1522.
It has a railroad station.