Passage of automà ³ vel - approach Extensão 177 km

SaÃda becomes next to the market of Tavira, in the Praça of the República. To the side, the river Gilão slides, preguiçoso, for the estuary. To center, one espaço landscaped with esplanades, to invite to the rest and the reading. This ¡ in one of the few algarvias localities where to € œ culture of hamburger and cooling engarrafado⠀  still in £o provoked veis estragos irreparà ¡.
For wool ¡ of the market, the discharge of the boats of fishes. Of this wharf ferries” for the island of Tavira, place breaks também ronceiroas “where, exactly in most loaded of the Agostos, the made use traveller to one walked perhaps finds its gore of sun and sea.

Serà ¡ throughout the Gilão, but for sum, that the first part of the stroll if goes to develop. To the deep one of praça and when the hundred meets ¡ laughs rock bridge, now closed to the trânsito, we go in front, following indicação the “Real Village”. We will the same make 300 meters later, in the rotunda. We pass under the viaduct of the iron way and continue parallel to the river, following indicações the “Asseca” and the “Mill of the Rocha”.
The road folloies the Gilão for the right edge. ‰ pretty, tipped of walls of rock and orange groves, narrow and even so sinuosa. To visit the fall of ¡ gua of the Mills of the Rock some must be ignored indicações placed the side of the road. Thus to km 7,9 It must be cut right, to pass the narrow bridge on the Gilão and to enter in asphalt for the left. In the first curve, to follow in front for land, direcção the “Bodega”. 1700m later, to stop the car. In the opposing edge it discharges the ribeiro that we look for. The falls estão 50 meters for sum. Nor always to ¡ gua runs, therefore the rain regimen in the Algarve é each more irregular time. Let us return até to alcatrão, direcção Cachopo.
Still hà ¡ fifteen years, part of this passage in £o was tarred. In some sales the side of the road had gratings of iron in the doors and windows. E, for detrà ¡ s of balcão, caçadeiras duly municiadas, lembrança of times in £o very distant of shoot outs with robbers or attack of the group of the Rummaged one. The road has a magnÃfico floor today, the curves são drawn and the trânsito é well mÃnimo. Consonant the side for where if it bends, however we sight the maritime edge, however sucessão of mounts rounded off caracterÃsticos of the algarvia mountain range. We enter in a world the part. LÃdia Jorge could have situated To “the Day of the ProdÃgios” in any of the villages that we go sighting.
Here and além whitens houses, and indicações highway ¡ you laugh confirm the existência of sets of ten of villages (Threshed High,  guas of the Spindles, Feiteira, Source of the Corcho, Almarginho) 15 km volvidos, one cut the right indicates the village of Bunk, others as much quilà ³ meters for east. WOOL ¡ encontrarà ¡ the freshness of the hill barrage, tipped green pontuadas, and além, for casinhas here white. The headquarters of insacià ¡ vel cosmopolita Algarve (whose população quintuplica in the Verão) has demanded construção of this and other artificial lakes.
In aproximação final Castro Marim this passage voltarà ¡ to pass wool ¡ close. Who to want to shorten the return the mountain range and opts to leaving to fall Cachopo, Long Martim, and Alcoutim has its chance to ut short here, reducing to one terço the kilometrage of the stroll.
It has advanced, about 12 km, the road crosses the ribeira of Odeleite in a place aprazÃvel, to ask for stopping, rest in the esplanade the right, or, who knows, a retemperador bath.
 left some curious houses in the Mount village of the Ribeira (one estradã what it runs throughout the ribeira allows to make one ligação in all-the-land to Passage 2, in the village of Cerro of the Ursa).
More 7 km and here it is entered us It of Cachopo.  left, a gasoline bomb, opened of the 7,00 h s 23,00 h, that can decide some problem to the traveller. As the Café Retiro of the Caçadores that, in £o being properly the temple of the serrana kitchen, sufficiently supplies to the esfomeado tourist a beefburger with two eggs potatoes qb for one preço aprazÃvel. The village deserves visit pé. The church of Saint Estêvão still é point of traditional festividades: Lady of Pains, in August with procissão and fair, idem in September and, finally Fair of the Cattle the 26 of December, for the party of the protector.
Começam to appear the small houses circular in rock, with roof of colmo, used as today palheiros, but whose origin if guesses antiquÃssima. To prove that the traditional arts and ofÃcios in £o estão deceased, the workshop the Lançadeira allows to see a manual sewing press it in activity and to acquire blankets, towels and other products woollen £ genuÃna. The preços can arrive at 200⠂ ¬, but in £o material é that apareça in supermarkets, nor in the chains of mark store. Prà ³ ximo in the place of Corrals, LuÃsa branches still goes trepando for the sewing press, although its more than 80 years….
This ¡ in the hour to retake trip. In the center of Cachopo, it is cut for Long Martim e, 500 meters later, appears one cut the left for Mealha. We prepare ourselves for one incursão of 10 km, first for alcatrão and later for land, in the algarvia mountain range.
The way remembers a Moroccan track. Moroccan E é também the landscape: colinassuas, the pedregosas sources, pontões submersÃveis on a “ueds”. Mealha é our objectivo, for two order of razões: the first é the village properly said, colorful, with houses of rock and the circular palheiros ineviaveis; to another é the Tapir of the High Rocks. As much têm demanded that the village in weight if juntarà ¡ to help it. Of the única praceta cemented it darão a expedito, ordering to look at more it, first azimuth for one eira in high of the hill prà ³ xima e, later, to far, for two round chaparros in the high one of one cabeço.
It follows a way of bad floor that leaves the crossing of the entrance of the village during 1 km. When to find one eucalipto great its left, initiates ascensão of the situated hillside its right. A reached time line of the cumeada, this ¡ about 300m of the tapir, on-line recta. It follows a track in the way them rockroses. The tapir deverà ¡ to appear to it the left side, partially hidden for the shrubs. IN £o having the importância of the Great Tapir of the Zambujeiro (‰ vora), é as one YOU the neolÃtico: small but functional. E, as in the fan ¡ papal brief of the soup of rock, é the excuse for a stroll pé and one visits excellent.

ConcluÃda the visit, has two choices: or to come back to the crossing of the Cachopo for the same way and daà to follow for the National Road até Long Martim, or to follow indicações toward ameixial and daÃ, for estradão, to apanhar the national road toward north. Fond the Long Martim, we can postpone the visit and, in the first crossing, turn the 8 right and make km that separates in them of the village of Cattle tenders.

To the pôr-do-sun, who in £o ficarà ¡ lost to contemplate namoro of a couple of storks in the roof of the alvejante first church? Quinhentista temple of one sà ³ ship, has interesting straight line ¡ bulos in the chapel-mor.

Returned the Long Martim, one sends regards, will be hours of refeição, a visit the Aunt Anica. IN £o if it deals with a restaurant properly. As Mrs. in cause lived many years in Morocco, inspiração for a creative mixture of the kitchens collected aà algarvia, French and moura that makes you delight them of the visitors. ‰ indispensà ¡ vel marcação € “ Tel. 281 498 313 € “ Sends regards, still, the visit ¡ first church, with ticos elements gà ³, straight line ¡ bulos of séc. XVII, an interesting image of Ours Lady and paintings you wall almost disappeared. In the artisan workshop the Flower of the Needle encontrarà ¡ jute dolls, and, in Lutão de Baixo (cut the left, when it is followed in direcção of Alcoutim), flowers in maize straw.
Retaken the trip, it is overcome EN 124 for Alcoutim. We cross the desert a “português” made of serranias that hide lost villages that jà ¡ in £o exports the oil, the honey, the leather and the wheat for the ports of the Guadiana.
Volvidos 6km, we turn the left for Giões. Curious village (the first church has images of S. Peter € “ séc. XVI € “ and of Ours Lady of the Rose ¡ river - séc. XV -), she places yourself very close to the border with the Alentejo. 3km for north, jà ¡ to go down for the river Vascão (that regiões makes the border of the two), meets, the left, one cut in land without any indicação. Covered 300m in bad floor, it is arrived the Cerro of the RelÃquias, visÃveis place aprazÃvel and where são the remaining portions of one I castrate pré-histà ³ rich. Retaking the road for Alcoutim, we will take note of that in the village of Pereiro, each time more depopulated and with the bulos straight line ¡ of degraded the first church each time more, the restaurant the Central office in offers to tidbits the base to them of hare and wild boar. But convém to mark pitéu.

Crossed the EN122, we arrive the Alcoutim finally. ‰ height to seat in the esplanade border to the Guadiana, being looked at the white casario of the Spanish town of San Lucar. Anchored in the wharf hà ¡ almost always foreign yachts that if venture upstream.
The village tries to wake up of a lethargy of séculos, forgotten them times where it was important fluvial port, where fenÃcios, Greek, Roman and ¡ rabes dealt with the agropastoris peoples of the interior. Or of the times where he received, he went the year of 1371, kings D. Fernando of Portugal and Enrique II of Castile to celebrate the peace of Alcoutim.

To follow to the tourism rank, It can be directed headquarters of the Alcancel (Associação for the Development of the Concelho de Alcoutim) where ajudarão to orient themselves in the visit or to contract with a fisherman a Warlike stroll até of Rio or Pomarão. Capsized the river with its Whites House going up in cascade. Alcoutim in £o in patrimà ³ very nio rich é construÃdo. The castle, half-ruined, serves as miradouro. The first church presents a vestibule renascença, columns with capiteis, a softly-relief colorful of séc. XVI and a eucarÃstico safe in silver and madrepérola.

Valley the penalty a shunting line até the village of Penteadeiros to see the blankets of drawing in spine of Senhorinha Maria, the dean of the tecedeiras.
Let us come back the road to conclude the circuit of this another Algarve. Até the estuary of the Odeleite hà ¡ one “marginal” bordejando the river. In Warriors of the River, the Museum of the River, even so modest, in £o leaves of, através of texts and drawings and photographs, to count histà ³ laughs at the fluvial comércio that since the cartagineses, in séc.VII B.C. if made até ME ©rtola (72km of the estuary). It can, in this place, to contract a stroll for the river até Alcoutim or the estuary of the Odeleite. Although the decadência of fishes, still é possÃvel to eat some tidbits the base of fish of the river.
More ahead, povoação of  lamo, with two colored habitacionais sets. € entered, a barrage Roman in razoà ¡ vel been of conservação. The road inflecte for the west to the meeting of EN 122 and of I castrate Marim.
If to make dúzia stocking of quilà ³ meters for north, até Odeleite, terà ¡ chance to make contact with would cestaria of local sugar cane. Much appreciated, a “condessas” with cover.
Nio tapir ³ Sundays Gonçalves é the master more known, but hà ¡ artesãos qualified.
Deep workmanships of remodelação têm passed in this ¡ rea, with sight conclusão of the system hidrà ¡ ulico Odeleite-Bunk. The vestÃgios of the castle of Odeleite had disappeared, the bridge highway ¡ laughs at years 40 was submerged and had appeared two artificial Great Lakes. One hipà ³ thesis of revitalização of villages as Alçarias (Bunk) or Burnt Choça, the White House, Carvalhinhos and from above Monte (Odeleite). The access the barrage of Bunk becomes next to village of Azinhal.

In this village it goes, probably, to find tenants of bilros to work the house door. The road, of irregular floor and very curve, takes us até Castro Marim, através of a hill landscape soft with ¡ mediterrânicas rvores, casinhas white and hortas domésticas.
Old land, medieval ortaleza, shows with clearness as terà ¡ been the gradual ticket of the high town and closed inside of the walls for it I besiege low involved open e for the agrÃcolas fields.

Valley the penalty to make the passage pé around the castle. Aà we discover vestÃgios of one castiça popular architecture: reixas green and me ³ veis, decorating and protecting windows, caiadas roofs of gracious bendings with beirais and cornices, platibandas policromas and super-decorated.
We can começar in the Plaza of the Doors (next to church of Ours Lady of ME ¡ rtires), turning the right for the Street the Bald spot ¡ river, até to arrive at the Plaza of the Ribeira. Later, to continue for the Right Street até to the Plaza of the Poço and its prolongation até ¡ s Doors. The essential of the núcleo this ¡ pressentido: religious monuments, residential streets and vital ligação TO ¡ gua. Of the high one of the medieval castle or the seiscentista ortaleza, in the neighboring hill, the magnificent sight on the sapal and the estuary of the Guadiana. E the possibility to conclude the day with one deserved refeição of fish grilled in Manel d `€ gua in I castrate Marim.

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