Italian-style theatre founded in 1909 by Gregório Mascarenhas. After spending decades in ruins, it now preserves its historic value and its facilities favour audience/stage interaction.
A museum composed of the museum itself, a library, a multimedia area, a play space and a multi uses room. The museum pictures the days when João de Deus lived. One may view reproductions of the life and works of that poet and professor. The multi uses room is destined to theatre, dance, concerts, recitals, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and literary reunions.
A space created in 1990 by the Silves Town Hall that exhibits archaeological finds from the region and from the town itself. It is located in a 19th century house where a water reservoir was discovered that is now the heart of the museum. Ordered chronologically, the collections deal with prehistory, the roman period, the moorish period nd the Portuguese period (until the 17th century). A special note to some Iron Age funerary stellas with writings of the southwest of the Iberian peninsula, considered to be the first written form in the region.
Este museu expõe uma coleção de veículos de tração animal, na sua maioria provenientes da atividade agrícola. Inclui exemplares de carros de mula, charrete, aranha, carro da água, carro dos cântaros, carro de capoeira, carreta, demonstrando a evolução técnica e artística dos meios de tração animal utilizados pelos algarvios até ao aparecimento do automóvel. Também estão expostos exemplares de alfaias agrícolas e arreios.
The library is situated at the Torreão das Portas da Cidade. Non-members can look up, read or request library material and/or use the internet. The library also provides entertainment activities and organizes exhibitions on various themes.
