Name of legaly entity: Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve/ Algarve Regional Directorate of Culture
Country: Portugal
City: Faro
Website: http://www.cultalg.pt/
Description Summary of the Project
Type of Organization
DRCAlgarve is an entity of the central administration of the State.
Project Idea
Project 1 - Production and trade of fish preparations in seaside villages and urban agglomerations
The entire Algarve coastline is dotted with industrial fish preparation complexes dating from the first to the sixth century of our era, and there are often cetarias (tanks) in workshops that testify to the regional relevance of this economic activity. , provided by the abundance of fish, the availability of salt in large quantities, the sunny days and the position of the Algarve between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The conservation, heritage and valorization of some of these workshops, associated with maritime villae (such as Boca do Rio) and coastal urban agglomerations (such as the cities of Balsa / Luz de Tavira and Ossonoba / Faro, or the coastal settlements of Laccobriga). (Lagos or Senhora da Luz), from which came products that supplied vast regions of the Roman Empire, recovering for the memory of the coastal communities the testimonies of the entire production line - saline and fishing activity, environments and technology for the preparation of fish preparations , container production environments, product circulation through paleo-estuary ports and maritime distribution routes - some of them threatened by coastal erosion.
Project 2 - Watchtowers and coastal defense fortifications
In the far southwest of Europe, the Algarve played a key role in the modern era in maritime and military control of the largest naval corner where the Mediterranean Atlantic routes crossed, in defense of the peninsular and European territories, in the southern European maritime border and in Western Christianity's border with the Muslim World. The tutelary presence of watchtowers towers, fortresses and plazas of war along the entire Algarve coast, and the memories of conflict, military episodes and piracy incidents, are a reference of seafaring communities and are a factor of identity. It is intended the valorization of this heritage through actions of real estate, recovery of references in the oral tradition, with the involvement of the communities of the Algarve coast that own this heritage.