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Guia in Central Algarve Portugal,Guia is a small village that comes under the district of Albufeira,being just 4 kilometres away. Guia today has become famous across Portugal for its Chicken Piri Piri and its Wines, in the 16th century when Portugal discovered the spice it was a huge trading tool with other countries,
Chicken Piri Piri is believed to have originated from Angola and Mozambique, but nowadays it is one of Portugal’s national dishes with Portugal being the largest consumers of chicken in Europe.
The village of guia in the past played an important part of the Algarve, with its windmills of the village and that of the nearby village of Algoz where well know for the millenary industry,so much so the windmill is incorporated in the coat of arm for the village of Guia, one windmill still survives and is well preserved, it sits in the grounds of the vineyards(Adega da Cantor) which translates as the winery of the singer, the name given by the well known English singer Sir Cliff Richards, who has developed many award winning wines from scratch. The village is now celebrated with being known for Chicken Piri Piri and wine that they have dedicated a roundabout with sculptures of Wine bottles and Chickens and can be seen on the EN125
The village is a good stop of point as it has much to offer it has a good daily covered market for fish, plenty of restaurants. The village offers amble parking just of the main high street, well worth strolling around the many back streets with many cottages with their brightly coloured frontages, to the more grander merchants houses with carved stone door and window surrounds, and fancy wrought iron Juliet balconies, the main high street has a good selection of café/bars as well as ATM machines, there is an art gallery that is on 2 floors it also sells hand made jewellery, there is a small chapel with a Moorish style courtyard garden well worth a look. The village has a picnic park with the old Nora water well dating from the 1940’s that used to serve the local community, the village splits into 2 with the EN125 running through it, on the other part of the village is one of the largest piri piri restaurants seating around 800. on the road to Algoz. Each Easter Sunday the Village holds a cake festival with a giant spiced cake with hard boiled eggs in it, there is also live music and dancing. See village fairs
Little Chapel Garden
Undercover Market Square
Guia water Nora well
Main Church at the top
Many cobbled back streets
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