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Cultural Centers in Portimão
Casino da Praia da Rocha
- leisure
Avenida Tomás Cabreira
8500-802, Portimão
Part of the Hotel Algarve Casino, the Praia da Rocha Casino is the most modern and one of the best on the Algarve coast. It has a restaurant, a concert hall with capacity for 250 people and a slot machine room with around 300 units. French and American Roulette and Black Jack are some of the games you can find in the game room.
Museu de Portimão
- heritage
Rua D. Carlos I
8500-607, Portimão
Museum installed in an old large canning factory, the Fábrica Féu Hermanos. Permanent exhibitions focus on the factory's classical and industrial archeology, while temporary exhibitions are usually related to photography and painting. The Museum's assets are made up of industrial and ethnographic heritage, namely the canning industry, shipbuilding, fishing, stowage, lithography, foundry, tinsmithing, smoke-dried, transport, among others.
Galeria Portimão
- art
Rua Santa Isabel, 5
8500-612, Portimão
A gallery with contemporary art exhibitions and sale of fine arts works.
Galeria San Lucas
- art
Rua da Hortinha, 8
8500-594, Portimão
A small gallery located in the commercial area of the town. Exhibition and sale of paintings by the artist Júlio Amaro, the shop's owner.
Biblioteca Municipal Manuel Teixeira Gomes
- heritage
Quinta do Bispo
8500-729, Portimão
A library composed of an infantile, a juvenile and an adults sections. There are several areas with tables and sofas for reading and studying. It has several internet computers.
Museu Diogo Gonçalves
- heritage
Praça da República
8500-540, Portimão
A painting museum at the Centro de Apoio de Idosos de Portimão (Aged People Supporting Centre of Portimão). Ot has works by about 200 Portuguese artists, including Joaquim Rodrigo, Carlos Lança, Adão Rodrigues, Júlio Amaro, António Costa and Costa Coutinho.
Instituto de Cultura de Portimão - Casa das Artes
- art
Bairro Santo Expedito
8500, Portimão
This institute organizes several activities, namely a Senior University, swimming lessons, gymnastics lessons and Portuguese for foreigners.
Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes
- art
Rua Júdice Biker, 1
8500-701, Portimão
This area exposes the spoils of bibliographic Manuel Teixeira Gomes. In this place also are periodically various events such as concerts, recitals, meetings, conferences and workshops.
Biblioteca Municipal Manuel Teixeira Gomes - Pólo de Alvor
- heritage
Rua Marquês de Pombal, 8
8500, Alvor
A small library with books, papers and magazines, a children's area, intrnet computers and a juvenile area.