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Around fifty children and teenagers from Alte perform music, dance and art at Fonte Pequena in this free community showcase, 24 July.
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Once a year, the spring at Fonte Pequena in Alte becomes an open-air stage for the village's children and teenagers. Around fifty young performers take turns showing what they have been working on, from singing and playing instruments to dance, drawing and other forms of performance, in a programme organised by Loulé's municipal museum with the Junta de Freguesia de Alte. It is a small, homegrown event rather than a polished production, closer to a village talent show than a festival, and it draws families from across Alte and the surrounding hills for the evening. The show starts at 21:00 at the Fonte Pequena and is free to attend.
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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.
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