A look at the traditional, true Algarve, though its traditional architecture, its hills and coastal landscapes, its traditions.
"Here there was a past, going back to the Moors and to the Romans, and to others that came long before them, going all the way back to the beginning of man. But it is a past in contradiction with the present reality of this land and its light that touches all the remnants of ages past, giving them a life that allows no nostalgia, let alone romanticism, as occurs in Pompeii or in Northern Europe's ruined castles full of shadows and ghosts. Perhaps that is why memory is not cultivated here, which could appear to be negligence, were it not merely the natural state of things.
Memory is everywhere, but here legends have gathered it around water wells, said to be enchanted by Moorish women."
Nuno Júdice
Publisher: Maurício Abreu and Região de Turismo do Algarve
Project and production of the book: Maurício Abreu
Photography by Maurício Abreu
Introduction text by Nuno Júdice
Texts by Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Raul Proença, Aquilino Ribeiro, Raul Brandão and José Manuel Fernandes.
Design by José Teófilo Duarte
English version by Richard Zenith
1st edition: November 1995
2nd edition: August 2001
ISBN: 972-95897-2-0
Size: 23,5 x 31 cm; 80 pages
112 colour photographs
