Saturday was our first real day of doing our touring thing. The weather is not being very cooperative. We were aiming to go to a town nearby, Loulé, that had number items that sounded cool. And there was a unique church decorated inside with the famous azulejos tiles in a nearby community we wanted to see.
A main attraction was the Municipal Market that was in an architecturally notable building. As fate would have it, we navigated ourselves to the Gypsy Market that was just a bunch of stalls in a big dirt lot. Not architecturally distinctive. As we were making our way around the stalls, it started to pour. We decided to forgo trying to find anything else. However, I have forgotten to bring a hat on this trip which I really need to keep rain off my glasses and sun out of my damaged eyes. We thought we passed a mall on the way to the market. Getting there we found it was in fact a big supermarket. That was great because there were a number of items we were going to get at the Municipal Market.
After coming home and making up sandwiches for lunch, the weather cleared and we went back to
Loulé. We found the Market and did our wandering around the town. We went to the church which was every big as cool as advertised...very different from anything else I've seen. Sadly they did not allow pictures inside. We finished the day in our usual fashion with me whipping up a delicious sausage and cabbage dish and working on our pictures and blogs.
Photos
Decorative tiles in all types of forms and applications are a major component of design in Portugal
Coming the the Municipal Market
Inside the Market
A fountain in the town center
Medieval Castle? Check
Igreja de Sao Lourenco de Almancil
Although this church did not allow pictures inside, there was another church in Loulé that had some walls that were similar just not as extensive. So I've included them here with pictures of the church exterior to give you the feel.
3 comments:
this looks like it was a much better day of touring! Food and beauty.
I found the road marker interesting. If those are measurements in miles, they seem really big for a sign that would have been intended for people largely walking or on a horse. And if they aren't miles, I wonder what they are?
RMG - those markers were used in the mid-20th century so were for autos and I believe they were in kilometers.
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