To: Historical Center of Albufeira, Albufeira, District of Faro, Algarve
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Duration: 30 minutes
You are in: Marina de Lagos, Lagos, District of Faro, Algarve
Lagos was already in the middle of the sixteenth century, the great base of support for the Discoveries, the place from where their main expeditions departed and where many of the products were marketed.
This strategic importance of Lagos gave rise to a considerable economic development, which was translated in the fixation of many people in the city, originating its urban growth.
The continuous harassment that the city suffered on the part of the North African corso forced the construction of a second waist of walls, adapted to the new concepts of the military architecture, that the generalization of the use of the artillery had introduced, and that the Portuguese, following the model of the Italian vanguard, were putting into practice in Morocco and most of the territories integrated into the Empire.
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