São Bartolomeu de Messines
Located just 20km northeast of Silves is the stunning town of São Bartolomeu de Messines, a bustling rural Algarve town and only a 25-minute drive from the ever popular Algarve destination of Albufeira, with its shopping centres, bars restaurants and hotels.
Messines also has lots of history to offer and the town is centred around a 16th-century church, next to which is a small museum dedicated to Messines’ most famous son, the 19th-century poet João de Deus.