In this pleasant town in the Algarve interior is located the Museum of Algarve Costume. Housed in a late 19th century mansion, which belonged to a rich cork industrialist, it enables visitors to see exhibitions of traditional vehicles, agricultural implements and popular art.
The former Municipal Market currently houses the Vila do Bispo Interpretation Centre. The building, which dates from the early 20th century, played a predominant role in the social and economic fabric of the municipality for around 70 years. Symbolically, it was restored to house a public service of a cultural nature which, in partnership with […]
The construction of the convent Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção (Our Lady of Assumption) began in 1519, on the initiative of two nuns from Beja, who were sponsored by the Queen Leonor, commander of the town of Faro at that time. The first phase of the work was late Gothic, but in about 1530, […]
The renovated building of the former Feu fish-canning factory, next to the River Arade, houses Portimão Museum, where visitors can discover the origins and evolution of the local community and territory and most significant aspects of the city’s industrial and maritime history. In addition to the permanent exhibition “Portimão, Território e Identidade” (Portimão, Territory and […]
Founded at the beginning of the 18th century, the Church of Santo António suffered considerable damage in the 1755 earthquake, which led to its reconstruction in 1769. It is a church with a single nave, modest in size and with a simple façade, on which the main feature is an eye window with a border […]
Housed in a 19th century building that was once the Town Hall, the Aljezur Municipal Museum includes an art gallery which hosts temporary exhibitions. In the same building, there is an archaeology centre with finds from all over the municipality, and an ethnography centre with a reproduction of an old house exhibiting a traditional bedroom […]
Housed in the former town hall building, this museum has a temporary exhibition room and a permanent archaeology exhibition, featuring items representing the history of the municipality from pre-historic times up to the 17th century.
Not far from Silves Castle, in a building which includes a section of the town walls and a cistern well of Arab origin, is the Municipal Archaeology Museum. The museum houses an interesting collection of archaeological finds from around the municipality, dating from the Paleolithic Period to the Middle Ages, which encompass eight thousand years […]
The former Silves Abattoir, a fine example of the region’s neo-Arab architecture, built in 1914, currently serves as the House of Islamic and Mediterranean Culture, where visitors can hear talks and visit art exhibitions.
On the site where a chapel was built in the 17th century in honour of Santo António of Lisbon, there is at present a thematic museum dedicated to the saint. It contains a huge collection about Portugal’s Matchmaker Saint.
The Wax Museum of the Portuguese Discoveries offers visitors a spectacular and exciting journey through time in an educational yet entertaining way. The history of the Discoveries is brought to life through a themed approach that begins with the Battle of Aljubarrota and features many other historic events, including the marriage of King John I […]