The Algarvean Costume Ethnographic Museum is located in what was once the home of Miguel Dias Andrade who grew rich in the cork trade, this building is a good example of bourgeois architecture at the end of the 19th century
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In addition to an exhibition of the typical Algarvean costumes worn in the 19th/20th centuries, there is also a collection of popular religious sculptures.
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The old farm buildings contain about twenty- old vehicles once used in the Algarve, ranging from carriages and buggies that were the favourite means of transport of the rich to mule carts and ox-drawn wagons used by farmers and farm labourers.
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The museum also includes an exhibition of agricultural implements and tack and an area dedicated to cork and the cork industry.
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Open Mondays to Fridays from 10h00-13h00 and 14h00-17h00. Saturday, Sundays and public holidays from 14h00-17h00.
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