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A Tour of Faro, part I 22 23 TEXT: Angelika Jończyk
PHOTO: Alba Vallés
Let’s start exploring!
It’s best to start your journey
around Faro in its heart, which
is the Jardim Manuel Bivar. For
years, it was a meeting place
for all the city’s inhabitants. This
place was always teeming with
Faro history life, there were laughs and loud
conversations from everywhe-
Faro is a place of great historical re. In addition, the place was
importance as it has been in- referred to as the “employment
habited since prehistoric times. center” because employers and
During the Roman occupation, potential employees met here.
it got rich thanks to fishing and So now the very popular job fairs
salt mining in this area. were possible in this place so
Ossónoba, as the Romans called long ago!
it, was the most important city in Now, this park hosts various cul-
the region and developed during tural events, and you can often
the Moorish conquest. hear live music.
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