Dance, music, food and drinks, horseback weapons tournaments and a historic procession. “Paderne Medieval” returns this Friday, December 29th.
Over the course of four days, until January 1st, «Paderne Medieval extends through the streets and narrow alleys of the parish, invaded by smells and flavors coming from excellent gastronomic delicacies, representations of arts and crafts and various allusive performances at the time», says Albufeira City Council.
Medieval Paderne is once again part of the City Council's end-of-year program, the “Albufeira Carpe Nox”, which this year expects to bring close to 300 visitors to the municipality.
«This is a program of enormous relevance, both for the people of Albufeira and for the promotion of the Albufeira brand, as well as for publicizing the enormous beauty of our village in the Algarve barrocal», highlights José Carlos Rolo, mayor of Albufeira.
«This is a program for all ages, especially aimed at families and year after year we have been concerned with improving the quality», says the mayor, noting that, this year, the big news is the enclosure set up next to to the João Campos Stadium, where all the battles and horse-arms tournaments will take place.
On the 29th, at 15 pm, the program begins with the opening of the market and the troubadours/heralds who announce the visit of King D. Dinis and the acclamation of the terms of acceptance of the king's tenancy over the kingdom of Garb Al`Andaluz , according to the Treaty of Badajoz, signed during the lifetime of his father, King D. Afonso III and his grandfather, El-King D. Afonso X of the Kingdom of Leão.
The highlight of this first day is scheduled for 16pm, with the royal procession.
Entrance to Paderne Medieval has a daily cost of 1.50 euros and 2 euros to the enclosure where the Horse Weapons Tournaments take place.
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