Five nights of grilled chicken, craft stalls and live music at Guia's football ground, the Algarve's best-known piri-piri festa.
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Guia, the village that put piri-piri chicken on the map, throws its biggest party of the year at the Polidesportivo from 29 July to 2 August. Long tables fill with grilled chicken and chips, and the grounds open at 7pm each night with a different local act on stage: Rosinha and the duo Emanuel e Tania open, followed on the next nights by Elena Correia and Marco Filipe, Roni de Melo and Ruben Filipe, Belito Campos and Valter Cabrita, and a closing night with Joana D'Arc and a return from Emanuel e Tania. Outside, the 18th Handicraft Exhibition lines the square with stalls selling regional crafts and produce. The festival is organised by Guia Futebol Clube with the Junta de Freguesia da Guia and the Municipality of Albufeira, and it draws locals and visitors from across the Barlavento for what regulars call the tastiest week of the Algarve summer.
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Silves' whitewashed old bridge and the riverside beneath the castle, best at low tide when egrets stalk the Arade mudflats. Everyone climbs to the red castle; far fewer linger on the river. The multi-arched Ponte Velha, medieval on older foundations and long nicknamed the Roman bridge, still carries foot traffic across the Arade, and the banks around it are Silves at its most local: anglers, café tables, market mornings and storks clattering on the chimneys. At low tide the river drops to channels where egrets and waders feed, with the castle and cathedral stacked above the whitewash behind. Cross to the south bank in late afternoon for the view back over town, then take a table near the municipal market as the light turns orange.
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