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Desertification and depopulation have been emphasized through all of the country´s interior during the last decades: a scenario that has been getting worse with the times. ECO123 spoke with Alberto Espírito Santo Fernandes. He is a member of the National Fight against Desertification Comission (CNCD) since 2004 and is responsible for the Regional Center against Desertification in the Algarve. The 61 year-old engineer relies on a broad experience in this area after, around 40 years ago, more precisely in 1976, having been the first technician placed in what was the first Natural Reservation created in continental Portugal – the Reserva …

A nicely decorated chimney has become a kind of Algarve trademark. It is a form of expression through which the people of the Algarve capture the working techniques of our forebears. The different appearances given to the chimneys, the different shapes, colours and styles, ensure that Algarve people are seen to be both tasteful and refined. The more distinctive and ostentatious the chimneys, the better. Chimneys in the shape of balloons and cones, with a grille or decorated with a series of tiles, and in a wide range of colours, attract the attention of onlookers. This sight on the rooftops …

This is one of the best books about our sea, its creatures and local cuisine that has ever been written in Portugal: it is a blend of biology book, history book and cookbook, a collection of essays and anecdotes covering 150 illustrated pages; published in German and English, the book is a culinary survey of the seas and the kitchens of the Algarve kingdom. The two authors Andrea Siebert and Nico Böer (posthumously) deserve recognition and respect, because they have turned the knowledge they gathered from fishermen, fishmongers and cooks into the very useful format of a book. Now it …