The restoration of the walls of Paderne Castle has been completed.
This is one of the seven castles represented on the flag of Portugal, with its reddish ruins, thus constituting 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 on Via do Infante, coming from the A2.
The monument, managed by the Municipality of Albufeira, had a total investment of 578 thousand euros, with community support (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 had been 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.
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