Silves
| Town in Faro district, southern Portugal, 50 km/31 mi northwest of Faro; population (1991) 6,000. The region produces figs, olives, vines, and almonds. There is a Gothic cathedral and a ruined Moorish castle. Silves was the capital of the Algarve under the Moors, from whom it was taken by the Portuguese in 1242. |
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