Castelo dos Mouros

The street of Silves were once packed with traders, bazaars overflowed with exotic goods, and the gilded domes of many minarets gleamed in the sun. The bustling capital of 12th century Moorish Algarve, known as Xelb, is today a sleepy place with 12,000 inhabitants. Only the castle indicates the town's former wealth and importance.

The castle was built to last and, despite bearing the brunt of fighting during the Christian Reconquest of Portugal in the 12th and 13th centuries, it remains substantially intact.

excerpt from
AA Essential Algarve

21 August 2002


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