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This year, the Municipality of Monchique celebrates the Christmas season with an extensive programme of activities designed to enliven the town and attract visitors under the theme "Monchique Natal".
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This year, the Municipality of Monchique celebrates the Christmas season with an extensive programme of activities designed to enliven the town and attract visitors under the theme "Monchique Natal".
Throughout the month of December, several activities will take place, such as the Christmas Market, Street Theatre, Circus, Contests, Wooden Nativity Scene, Concerts, carousel and various entertainment.
Traditional crafts, new creations and regional food products will be featured in this edition.
The Municipality will also promote Christmas campaigns under the theme “Win this Christmas, shop at Local Businesses!”
All great reasons to visit Monchique!
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Bike café and shop in Monchique with breakfast promotions from 9h to 12h and a Strava cycling club running weekly social rides.
400 m from the venue
Mountain restaurant on the road up to Foia, near Monchique, 36 years trading, known for black pork and daily changing traditional dishes.
1.1 km from the venue
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A tiny spa hamlet in a wooded mountain valley, taking the waters since Roman times and shady in the fiercest August. Caldas de Monchique gathers around a sloping square where the buildings are pastel, the tree canopy is deep and the only sounds are birdsong and running water. People have come for the springs for some two thousand years; King João II arrived in 1495 hoping the waters would cure him. Above the square, the thermal park climbs the stream in a series of pools, bridges and follies, and paths continue up into the eucalyptus and cork woods. It is the Algarve at its most unhurried. Park in the lay-by on the main road and walk down into the hamlet; mornings smell of wood smoke and wet leaves.
A necropolis of 5,000 year old monumental tombs in farmland behind Alvor, with a walk-in burial mound at its heart. Alcalar was the ceremonial centre of a Copper Age community that farmed this corner of the Algarve, and restored Monument 7 is the showpiece: a stone mound with a low passage leading to a corbelled chamber, engineering from around 3000 BC that you can peer into from the entrance corridor. Several more tombs lie around it in various states of excavation, and a small interpretation centre sets the scene. Few people come, so you will likely share the site only with larks and the wind. It is signposted from Mexilhoeira Grande off the N125; combine it with lunch in Alvor or Figueira.
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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