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The event offers a food and wine experience where wine and cuisine go hand in hand, showcasing the region’s flavours, produce and wines. Throughout the afternoon and evening, various local producers
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The event offers a food and wine experience where wine and cuisine go hand in hand, showcasing the region’s flavours, produce and wines.
Throughout the afternoon and evening, various local producers will be showcasing their wines, whilst the four restaurants at Loulé Market will be preparing a selection of dishes specially designed for this event.
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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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