Notable Buildings

Facing Faro's marina and garden, the Bank of Portugal building is one of the city's landmarks — a 1926 Neo-Manueline design blending Portuguese revivalism with Moorish-inspired details.

A century-old café in Faro that has closed, reopened, and closed again — and once, briefly, dared to broadcast the BBC to a city under dictatorship.

Vivenda Marília is an example of early twentieth-century Portuguese residential architecture built during a period of urban expansion.