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Museums and PalacesMuseu Regional do AlgarveThe Algarve Ethnographic Museum opened on the 15th of December 1962, being the painter Carlos Filipe Porfírio (1895 - 1970) responsible for its organization. Through a collection of photography one can visit the Algarve of the 1st half of the 20th (...)
Telephone: +351 289 870 893
Fax: +351 289 870 038
E-mail: dmar.dc@cm-faro.pt
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MonumentsFortaleza do Cabo de S. VicenteThe fortress is part of the defensive system built for the protection of the Algarve coastline. This particular site was used by Prince Henry the Navigator as a place of retreat.
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MonumentsCastelo de PaderneBuilt during the Almohad period, during a late phase of Islamic presence in the Algarve (12th century or first decades of the 13th century), this rural fortress is a paradigm of Muslim military stucco architecture in Portugal.Contrary to previous (...)
Telephone: +351 289 599 508
E-mail: sed@cm-albufeira.pt
Website: https://www.cm-albufeira.pt/content/o-castelo-de-paderne
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Municipal de FaroIt was the second museum to be created in the Algarve, and its name was changed in 1894 to Museu Archeológico e Lapidar Infante D. Henrique, on the occasion of the 5th centenary of the navigator's birth.The first facilities were in the Town Hall (...)
Telephone: +351 289 870 827/9
Fax: +351 289 870 038
E-mail: dmar.dc@cm-faro.pt
Website: http://www.cm-faro.pt
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MonumentsMuralhas e Torreões de LagosWalls and Turrets in LagosLagos's city walls, built in the reigns of D. Manuel I, D. João III and Filipe I completely surrounded the city in order to defend it from pirates and hostile fleets. The walls were subject to restoration works in 1960 at (...)
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MonumentsIgreja Matriz de São Salvador de AlcoutimThis is an example of the first Renaissance buildings erected in the Algarve. Built between 1538 and 1554 on the site of a medieval church, it was subsequently rebuilt on a number of occasions.It has a fine porch surmounted by the arms of the (...)
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MonumentsCastelo dos GovernadoresGovernadores CastleBuilt in the 17th century, this building is the only surviving element of the complex of the Seven Stations of the Holy Way that were distributed throughout the city in the 18th century.On the main façade, above each of the two (...)
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MonumentsSantuário de Nossa Senhora dos AflitosThis Carmelite sanctuary was a hermitage dedicated to Saint Peter in Pulgão where a statues of Nossa Senhora das Dores was placed, perhaps in the eighteenth century. This cult has many places of worship in the Algarve, especially in fishing zones. (...)
Telephone: +351 282 762 914
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho (Museu Regional de Lagos)Housed in the annexe to the Igreja de Santo António, this museum was founded in 1934. It has a Renaissance portico originating from the Igreja do Compromisso Marítimo (the church of the fishermen’s mutual society), to which an iron gate has been (...)
Telephone: +351 282 762 301
Fax: +351 282 782 058
E-mail: museu@cm-lagos.pt
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MonumentsArco da Vila em FaroThe Archway Built on one of the medieval gateways to the city, this monumental archway was commissioned by Bishop Francisco Gomes de Avelar in the early 19th century. The project was carried out by Italian architect Francisco Xavier Fabri and (...)
