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Extract from the Silves Travel Guides:
Capital of the Moorish kings of the al-Gharb (now Algarve),
SILVES
is still an imposing place and one of the few towns of inland Algarve that merits a detour. The
train station
- an easy approach from Lagos or Faro - lies 2km outside the town; there is a connecting bus, but it's worth walking, allowing the town and its fortress to appear slowly as you emerge from the wooded hills. Under the Moors, Silves was a place of grandeur and industry, described in contemporary accounts as being "of shining brightness" within its triple circuit of walls. In 1189 an army led by Sancho I put an end to this splendour, k...
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