Ruins where once stood the house of Corte-Real family.

Corte-Real was a family of navigators that explored the Atlantic coast of North America in the 15th and 16th centuries. Their house, already disappeared, stood on ruins of older times, as recent excavations revealed.
Traces of a Phoenician wall of the 8th century BC were found.
A Turdetan altar of the 4th century BC was also discovered (Turdetans wre an Iberian people that occupied what is now eastern Algarve and central and southern Andalousia).
Islamic dwelling structures (of the 12th and 13th centuries) were also discovered.
These archaelogical ruins, located at Calçada Dom Paio Peres Correia, Tavira, will become a museological nucleus accessible to visitors, after the necessary works.