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Museu Municipal
MUSEUM
( 289 400 600; Largo Dom Pedro I; admission €1.50; 9.30am-5.30pm Mon-Fri, 9.30am-2pm & 3-5.30pm Sat)
Housed within Loulé's restored castle, Museu Municipal contains beautifully presented
fine fragments of Bronze Age and Roman ceramics (exhibitions change every few years).
A glass floor exposes excavated Moorish ruins. The admission fee includes entry to a
stretch of the castle walls and the
Cozinha Tradicional Algarvia
, a re-creation of a traditional
Algarve kitchen, featuring a cosy hearth, archaic implements and burnished copper.
CHAPEL
Nossa Senhora da Conceição
( 9am-12.30pm & 2-5.30pm Mon-Fri & 9.30am-2pm & 3-5.30pm Sat)
Situated opposite Loulé's castle,
and dating from the mid-17th century, the small chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição
has a plain facade that nonchalantly hides a heavily decorated mid-18th-century interior
with a magnificent gold altarpiece. During recent excavations an Islamic door, dating
from the 3rd century, was uncovered under the floor, where it now stays, protected by
glass.
Almargem
( 289 412 959;
www.almargem.org
)
The environmental group, Almargem, is responsible
for the Via Algarviana and welcomes visitors on its Sunday walks.
WALKING
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