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“From the regional museum to the Community Collection: reflections on participation, co-production and heritage mediation”, by João Duarte
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Family-run restaurant in a 16th-century building in Loulé's old town, trading since 1980 with a daily-changing menu.
50 m from the venue
Bistro bar and tapas restaurant in the historic centre of Loulé, serving world food to share, craft beer and wine, with live music and a rooftop terrace.
50 m from the venue
Contemporary Portuguese restaurant in Loulé old town from chef Vitor Veloso, formerly of the Ritz London and Viajante.
100 m from the venue
Law office in Loulé for residents, companies and international investors, in Portuguese and English.
100 m from the venue
Vila Adentro is a restaurant in Faro's old town built over Moorish tunnels, a Roman well and a 15th-century house, with guided tours included.
100 m from the venue
Turnkey construction company in Loulé managing licensing, design, build and handover, with projects across the Algarve, Brazil and Belgium.
100 m from the venue
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A year round stream in the dry Barrocal hills, ringed by a gentle signposted loop walk near Querença. Water is the rarest thing in the Algarve interior, and Fonte Benémola has it all year, welling up through limestone and sliding between willows, poplars and reed beds. The protected valley holds a circular trail of roughly four and a half kilometres, flat enough for children and shaded for much of the way. Terrapins bask on the stones, dragonflies work the pools, and spring turns the banks into a wildflower show. We rate it as the easiest proper nature walk in the central Algarve. Start from the small car park on the Querença side and walk the loop anticlockwise to keep the stream beside you early on.
The ruins of a grand Roman villa at Estói, complete with fish mosaics and a temple that later became a church. Milreu was a luxury estate from the first to the fourth century, and what survives is remarkably legible: bathhouse walls with dolphin and fish mosaics, olive presses, and the tall podium temple that early Christians later converted, one of the few of its kind in Portugal. Interpretive panels are decent and the site rarely draws more than a handful of visitors at a time, so you can take it slowly under the trees while the rural setting drives home how comfortable Roman country life was. Pair it with the palace gardens up the road in Estói; the walk between the two takes about ten minutes.
The rammed earth remains of a 12th century Almohad castle, with village houses built right into its walls. Salir's castle never got the picture book restoration, and that is its charm. Chunks of taipa, the rammed earth the Almohads built with, stand between cottages and vegetable gardens at the top of the village, and you wander through what was once the fortified enclosure on ordinary lanes. A small interpretation centre explains the Islamic settlement that stood here, and the terrace at the top looks across the Barrocal towards the Rocha da Pena. Come in late afternoon when the low sun warms the earth walls, combine it with the Rocha trail or lunch in the village, and expect to have the place largely to yourself.
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