Museu Municipal de Arqueologia de 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.

Contacts


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

    Characteristics


  • 2.10€
  • Museums
  • accessibility

    opening hours


  • monday: 10:00-18:00
  • tuesday: 10:00-18:00
  • wednesday: 10:00-18:00
  • thursday: 10:00-18:00
  • friday: 10:00-18:00
  • saturday: 10:00-18:00
  • sunday: 10:00-18:00

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