Post reconquista (Christian): chapel building N. Senhora da Assunção. With the reconquest, domestic spaces have undergone the necessary changes and modifications, according to the uses and customs of a new culture. The construction of the chapel of Our Lady of the Castle or the Assumption, now in ruins, it stands out clearly from the other buildings. It is, as is evident from a building already the Christian medieval period, although undergone several changes over time, it is believed that in the eighteenth century, as present the current configuration.

In addition to the architectural structures, of which stands the castle itself, in the archaeological works also emerged, a vast collection with various timelines. Part of this estate is integrated in the exhibition of the Municipal Museum Archeology Albufeira.

The pieces on display from the Castle of Paderne, are divided into three different times. The transition between the Islamic and the Christian medieval period, the third part are presented the Modern Age.

Igreja Matriz de Paderne – Church of Paderne

The construction of this religious temple started at the beginning of the century. XVI time the population was moved from inside the castle for the current parish. Simple architectural facade. Inside, longitudinal plant with three naves of five sections, having been added in the last end of the century. XIX. conjugates various styles: Renaissance, Baroque and Manueline, reconstruction result in successive seasons. Noteworthy are the altarpieces of the chapel and the holy altar, which are baroque. Another of the wealth of this church, is your booty sculptural, with century copies. XVII and XVIII, with special highlight, the baroque image Archangel Michael.

Ermida da N.ª S.ª do Pé da Cruz – Chapel of Nossa Senhora Foot of the Cross

This Hermitage will have been built in the seventeenth century, has undergone restoration work in 1711. Inside you can admire his altarpiece of the early eighteenth century (about 1715), in the case of a testimony of the Baroque period.

The construction of the convent lasted for over forty years, with the royal patronage of the Queens Leonor grantee City and Manuel I woman, from 1519 to 1525 and of Queen Catherine, wife of King João III from 1529 to 1550. The most active phase of the yard, had the architect Afonso Pires and from 1561 to 1564, under the Diogo Pires orders. The convent is to highlight the Renaissance style, with a Manueline church and baroque dome.

Extinguished the religious orders in 1834, the convent passed to the hand of individuals, including having served facilities of a factory of cork stoppers, in the early twentieth century.

However a National Monument, the town bought the building in 1960 for installation of the Library and Municipal Museum.

Despite the looting carried out by British troops of the Earl of Essex (who also attempted against other buildings in Faro in 1596) and the 1755 earthquake is one of the best examples of the first Renaissance in the Algarve.