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The programme for this edition comprises six concerts and two educational activities, offering a journey through repertoires, sounds and aesthetics that span centuries of musical creation. We invite
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The programme for this edition comprises six concerts and two educational activities, offering a journey through repertoires, sounds and aesthetics that span centuries of musical creation.
We invite you to join us in this celebration of Early Music, where the heritage of the past is brought to life through the sensitivity and creativity of today’s musicians.
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Colour specialist hair salon in Loulé run by André Philippe, trained in France, working with Redken and Kérastase.
100 m from the venue
Coworking space and creative studio in Loulé offering desks, private offices and design services.
100 m from the venue
Private medical centre in Loulé since 2003 offering general practice, neurology, psychiatry and mental health care.
200 m from the venue
A long-established family-run interiors house in central Loulé, full-room schemes, custom upholstery, and the rare skill of matching interiors to the buildings…
200 m from the venue
A dedicated indoor party space in Loule for children's birthdays, baptisms and baby showers, with custom decor, cakes and catering, plus an online cake shop.
200 m from the venue
Turnkey construction company in Loulé managing licensing, design, build and handover, with projects across the Algarve, Brazil and Belgium.
400 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 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.
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.
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