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Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
Next to the cathedral is the stately 16th-century Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, now housing the Museu Municipal.
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Museu Etnográfico Regional do Algarve
In the left entrance of the district assembly building is the Algarve Regional Ethnographic Museum. Elements of old peasant life are on display here - like a small fishing boat and a wooden water cart (used until the owner's death in 1974). There are also enigmatically labelled displays of ceramics, fabrics and dioramas of typical interiors.
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Museu Municipal
The splendid, domed 16th-century Renaissance Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, in what was once the Jewish quarter, houses the Museu Municipal. Highlights are the 3rd-century Mosaic of the Ocean, found in 1976 on a building site; 9th- to 13th-century domestic Islamic artefacts; and works by a notable Faro painter, Carlos Filipe Porfírio, depicting local legends.
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Sé
The Sé was completed in 1251, on what was probably the site of a Roman temple, then a Visigoth cathedral and then a Moorish mosque. Only the tower gate and two chapels remain of the original Romanesque-Gothic exterior - the rest was devoured in 1755. It was rebuilt in a polygamy of Gothic, Renaissance and baroque styles, with intense gilded carving alongside elaborate tilework inside.
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