The restoration of the walls of Paderne Castle, a relevant investment in Culture in the municipality of Albufeira, has been completed, said this Friday, the 22nd, the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR).
Paderne Castle is a Hisn, a small Hispano-Muslim rural fortification from the Almohad period, in whose walls a unique and now lost construction process was used: military rammed earth.
One of the seven castles represented on the Portuguese flag, with its reddish ruins, constitutes one of the most significant examples of Muslim military architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, standing out in the landscape as a warning of arrival in the Algarve for those entering the Via do Infante, coming from the A2.
The monument, managed by the municipality of Albufeira, had a total investment of 578 thousand euros, with support from CRESC Algarve 2020 amounting to 404 thousand euros.
In the second and final phase, the conservation and restoration work on the Almohad rammed earth modules of the walls of Paderne Castle was carried out, under a cooperation protocol signed between the then Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, the Albufeira Municipal Council and the Algarve Regional Operational Program – CRESC Algarve 2020.
In a first phase, the Albarrã Tower was restored and then the entire east wall, using construction techniques of restoration in mud identical to those carried out during its construction by the Almohads, between the 12th and 13th centuries. The intervention aimed to consolidate and stabilize the walls.
