Cidade Velha or the Old Quarter is a perfect place to take a stroll and be amazed at the beauty of the well-preserved cobblestone streets along the harbor and its picturesque architecture influenced by Portuguese and Moorish from the18th century. Leave your [Faro car hire][541] parked near the harbor take a walk back in time touring a place that has not been touched by modernity.
Perhaps a little macabre for some this interesting cultural monument has a religious intention behind. It has a chapel that has been decorated with the skeletal remains of more than 1,200 former monks in the church of Igreja do Carmo.
This site served as a burial place for a 60 family community and it's the only remaining vestige of Portugal's first post-inquisition Jewish presence. This centre boasts more than 100 Sephardi-style graves with impressively engraved slabs.
Housing many objects linked to the history of Jews in Faro, there's also a museum here. Here you will be able to see the facsimile copy of Gacon's 1478 Pentateuch in Hebrew; this was Portugal's first book ever printed! All the interesting locations in town seem closer in a [cheap Faro car hire][541].
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