The mosaic tile, the tesserae, the blue, the gold, the fish, the geometric border, and the 2,000 years under the soil of the Algarve, emerges from the excavation at the Milreu in the Estoi, and the Roman Empire returns to the southern Portugal. The Algarve is the beaches, the golf, and the holiday apartments, and the Algarve is the Roman ruins: the 8th–3rd centuries BC (the Iron Age), the 2nd century BC (the Roman conquest), and the 5th century AD (the end of the Roman Lusitania), and the Roman ruins of the Algarve are the traces of the past that the visitors drive past on the way to the beach and the water park. Here are the best.

Visiting Roman Ruins in the Algarve

• The Milreu (the Estoi), the essential Algarve Roman site: The Milreu is the best-preserved Roman site in the Algarve: the 5 km from the Faro, the 1st–4th centuries AD, the villa rustica (the agricultural villa, the farmhouse, the baths, the mosaics, the fish, the marine, the most beautiful Roman mosaics in the southern Portugal), the temple (the 4th century, the apsidal, the apse, the water feature, the garden, the pool, and the conversion to the Christian church in the 6th century), the nymphaeum (the monumental fountain, the water from the spring, and the best Roman garden in the Iberia), and the museum (the finds, the busts, the Agrippina, the Hadrian, the Gallienus, and the best small museum in the Algarve). ~€2, and the essential: the Milreu is the quiet, the unknown Roman site, and the visitor will have the ruins to themselves. Allow the 1 hour. The Cerro da Vila in the Vilamoura: the Roman settlement at the Vilamoura marina, the 1st–5th centuries, the villa, the baths, the fish-processing factory (the garum, the Roman fish sauce, the essential Roman condiment, and the reason the Vilamoura was the wealthy: the garum was the export to the entire Roman Empire), the mosaics (the geometric, the most beautiful in the Algarve), and the museum. ~€5, and the essential strategy: the Vilamoura is the resort, and the Cerro da Vila is the Roman heart of the resort, the 1-hour visit, and the essential for the Vilamoura visitor. More Portugal →
• The Balsa (the Tavira), the lost Roman city: The Balsa is the largest Roman site in the Algarve and the one that the visitor cannot see: the 3rd–1st centuries BC, the 47 hectares, the port, the city, and the destruction, the Balsa was the destroyed in the 1970s by the agricultural bulldozing before the archaeological investigation, and the site is the lost. The Balsa museum in the Tavira (the Núcleo Islâmico, the Islamic museum, the Roman objects, the collection of the Balsa artefacts, and the essential for the Roman history in the eastern Algarve. ~€2) is the place to learn the story. The essential Algarve Roman day: the Milreu in the morning, the Cerro da Vila in the afternoon, and the end of the day at the nearest beach, the Roman ruins of the Algarve are the best combined with the sea