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Praia Dourada

  • food & drink

Rua da Praia, 11 - Vila Vita Park
8365-114, Armação de Pêra

Silves

Inserido no Vila Vita Park, na praia de Armação de Pêra, o restaurante Praia Dourada e o seu magnífico Beach Club serve um menu equilibrado com opções para partilha, saladas e grelhados de peixe e carne.

Vale Fuzeiros Nature Guest House

  • hotels

Cerro da Horta
8375-082, Messines

Silves

Nesta encantadora unidade de alojamento, concebida cuidadosamente para os amantes da Natureza, as ervas aromáticas locais assumem a temática da casa, dando o seu nome a cada um dos quartos. Dispõe de nove quartos decorados cuidadosamente num ambiente de campo moderno e elegante, uma piscina com vista panorâmica, uma sala de estar e refeições e um terraço com uma paisagem natural deslumbrante.

Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório

  • art

Rua Cândido dos Reis, 60
8300-126, Silves

Silves

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.

Ponte de Silves

  • heritage

Ponte Romana
8300, Silves

Silves

Roman bridge built over the widest point of the river Arade. The bridge is only suitable for pedestrian crossing and features five round arches. Medieval bridge whose construction dragged on for several years and which has been subject to several rebuilding episodes.

Museu João de Deus

  • heritage

Rua Doutor Francisco Neto Cabrita, 1
8375-124, São Bartolomeu de Messines

Silves

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.

Museu Municipal de Arqueologia de Silves

  • heritage

Rua da Porta de Loulé, 14
8300-139, Silves

Silves

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.

Praia de Armação de Pêra

  • beach

Praia de Armação de Pêra
8365, Armação de Pêra

Silves

Beach with an invitive and extensive strech of sand. It is attended mostly my national tourists. It has good quality water and normally the sea is calm. Since the sand

Praia Grande

  • beach

Praia Grande
8365, Armação de Pêra

Silves

The sand is clean and the beach is protected by a wide dunes area to the north, as well as by rocks to the east.

Igreja Matriz de São Bartolomeu de Messines

  • heritage

Rua do Arco, 3
8375-145, São Bartolomeu de Messines

Silves

Temple built in the 16th century, during the transition period between Manueline and Renaissance style. It has an interesting baroque façade, added at a later date, with white walls and masonry work in red sandstone. The slender pulpit and corresponding access staircase, built with local marble, is a small baroque masterpiece. The church also possesses a valuable set of religious statues from the 16th to the 18th century. Of this collection special mention goes to the statues dedicated to the Virgin.

Fortaleza de Armação de Pêra

  • heritage

Largo da Fortaleza
8365-108, Armação de Pêra

Silves

The fort was built mainly to defend this site and its people. People used to travel here from Alcantarilha (the capital of the parish) in order to fish and engage in other piscatorial activities and therefore needed some protection. A chapel dedicated to the fort's patron saint was built inside the fortress in 1972, nowadays it is known as Capela de Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos (Chapel of Our lady of the Distressed).

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