Alte and Querença

Chapel
Chapel

 

One excursion where you will have the opportunity to visit the most typical algarvian villages!  
 
Some consider Alte, which exists since the period of the Roman occupation, to be the most typical village of the Algarve. The area around the church is a delightful snapshot of the real Algarve.  
Fonte Pequena and Fonte Grande - For centuries these two sources were a meeting place for the women of the village who would fill their water pitchers and wash their cloths.  
Tables and stone benches have now been installed in the cool shade of the overarching trees, making this an ideal spot for having a picnic or just lazing around. Ribeira de Alte and its mills - the waters of Fonte Pequena and Fonte Grande, which are the source of the Alte river once turned the wheels of the villages nine mills.  
 
The village begins at the top of a hill and extends its white-washed houses down slopes with steep and cobbled lanes. The doors and windows have traditional blue trims, and several round or rectangular filigree chimneys decorate the roofs. Intricately carved platbands ornament some of the buildings which end near the beautiful Mother Church.  
 
Querença is known for its tasty "chouriças" (smoked pork sausages) and by the fine quality of the arbustus-berry brandy, distilled according to an ancestral process. Perhaps due to this, the local population is proud to organize every January, the "Chouriças Feast". At Easter there is the "Folares" (easter-cake) Feast, and in August, at the "Petiscos" (choice morsels) Feast the visitor can enjoy the region’s typical delicacies.

One excursion where you will have the opportunity to visit the most typical algarvian villages!

Some consider Alte, which exists since the period of the Roman occupation, to be the most typical village of the Algarve. The area around the church is a delightful snapshot of the real Algarve.  

Fonte Pequena and Fonte Grande - For centuries these two sources were a meeting place for the women of the village who would fill their water pitchers and wash their cloths.

Tables and stone benches have now been installed in the cool shade of the overarching trees, making this an ideal spot for having a picnic or just lazing around. Ribeira de Alte and its mills - the waters of Fonte Pequena and Fonte Grande, which are the source of the Alte river once turned the wheels of the villages nine mills.

The village begins at the top of a hill and extends its white-washed houses down slopes with steep and cobbled lanes. The doors and windows have traditional blue trims, and several round or rectangular filigree chimneys decorate the roofs. Intricately carved platbands ornament some of the buildings which end near the beautiful Mother Church.

Querença is known for its tasty "chouriças" (smoked pork sausages) and by the fine quality of the arbustus-berry brandy, distilled according to an ancestral process. Perhaps due to this, the local population is proud to organize every January, the "Chouriças Feast". At Easter there is the "Folares" (easter-cake) Feast, and in August, at the "Petiscos" (choice morsels) Feast the visitor can enjoy the region’s typical delicacies.