POST – CONFERENCE TOURS 5th MAY
VILA DO BISPO MUSEUM AND SAGRES FORTRESS
Places: 30
Bus from Portimão Museum Starts: 9:00h
Ends: 15:00h (Light lunch at Sagres Fortress)
VILA DO BISPO MUSEUM- BARN OF HISTORY
Opening its doors in January 2024, the Vila do Bispo Museum has given a new life to the old Barns of this town, built in the 1950s for storage by wheat farmers. Since then, the Barn of History has embraced an unprecedented mission, as a forum for the Local Community, a welcoming space for those visiting the territory and a Repository of the Heritage and Collective Memory of the Vila do Bispo Municipality and its people, an inclusive and participatory project, by everyone and for everybody.
SAGRES FORTRESS
The imposing Fortress of Sagres, in the extreme south of Europe, is the human extension of natural rock and was for centuries the main battlefield of a geostrategic maritime defense system. Maintaining the idea of a square between the buildings and the wall, an exhibition center and support services were made available to visitors, in order to make the discovery of this place and its cultural and natural memory more beneficial.
RIVER ARADE: BOTH BANKS NOW (AND THEN)
Get to know what’s going on and what went through on both banks of River Arade, while enjoying a solar-powered boat ride on SunSailer, a local pioneer on eco-friendly boat tours.
Places: 10 per group
Pick-up/Drop-off: Museu de Portimão (outsider pier)
Group 1: 10h00-11h30
Group 2: 11h45-13h15
Group 3: 15h00-16h30
THIS IS THE SEA (OF PORTIMÃO)
Enjoy a nautical stroll along the coastal side of Portimão, getting to know Praia da Rocha and the famed cliffs and caves that are symbol of this shoreline. Done aboard SunCat, a solar-powered catamaran
Places: 30 per group
Pick-up/Drop/off: Marina de Portimão
Group 1: 10h00-12h00
Group 2: 13h00-15h00
Group 3: 15h00-17h00
LAGOS
MUSEUM OF LAGOS AND SLAVERY ROUTE MUSEUM SECTION
Places: 40
Bus from Portimão Museum Starts: 9:00h
Ends: 14:30h (Light lunch at Lagos)
MUSEUM OF LAGOS
Entering the Museum of Lagos, founded by José Formosinho in 1930, is like embarking on a journey through the History of Lagos and the Algarve, integrating a journey with a thematic approach related to moments of affirmation of municipal and regional identity. It includes a set of works collected by the founder of the Museum, integrating a Cabinet of Curiosities, with a scientific collection of rare and unique, often bizarre pieces; a collection of works by artists participating in the Algarve Regional Congress (1915); a collection of works of palm, metal, basketry, pottery, drawing, palm, embroidery, lace and even sweets, the result of knowledge usually transmitted within the family but which were also the subject of innovation in formal education; and a collection of artisanal products alluding to the Algarve Regional Exhibition (1940), held as part of the double centenary celebrations: foundation of Portugal (1140) and Restoration of Independence (1640).
Other highlights of this museum include the exhibition of an original small-scale model of an imaginary village created by Pedro Reis, a true testament to the creative, critical and inspiring vision of experiences in the Algarve region. Don’t miss out the opporttunity to visit this recently renovated museum, nominated for EMYA2023.
SLAVE ROUTE
In 2009, in the city’s extramural area (Vale da Gafaria), the archaeological intervention that accompanied the construction of an underground car park made it possible to identify a rubbish bin from the modern era and, in its midst, a significant number of human skeletons (more than 150 ) that studies proved that they were African individuals brought to Lagos as merchandise via the slave trade routes and that, as they were sick or dying, they would end up being buried/discarded in that location along with other urban waste.
This cultural facility, also known as the Slave Market, today serves to publicize Lagos’ connection to the slave trade that existed here in the 15th century, offering a new perspective on this dark period in the History of Portugal.
LOULÉ
ISLAMIC BATHS AND BARRETO MANOR HOUSE
Places: 40
Bus from Portimão Museum Starts: 9:00h
Ends: 14:30h (lunch at Loulé)
ISLAMIC BATHS AND BARRETO MANOR HOUSE
In the place where the museum space of the Islamic Baths of Loulé and Casa Senhorial dos Barreto is located today, there was a building, almost ruined, apparently an ordinary house. It was acquired by the Municipality of Loulé in 2006 and thus the history of the museum space began to be written.
The building hid two great secrets, forgotten within the walls. The first, the reused structures of a 15th century house, which a study revealed to have belonged to the Barreto family, lords of Morgado de Quarteira and mayors of Loulé.
The second, hidden under the floors and foundations of this manor house, and buried by several hundred cubic meters of earth, was a well-preserved complex of public baths from Islamic times (hammam), built against the wall from the same period.
Visit it… and discover more about this story!
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