Faro Old Town by AnnS
The Old Town of Faro is its best feature, with lots of tiny streets still surrounded by Roman walls. In the centre is a beautiful square, Largo da Sé, that used to be the Roman Forum. It's lined with orange trees and on one side is a 13th Century cathedral, an 18th Century Episcopal palace and a 16th Century convent that is now the Faro Museum of Archaeology. There is also a small cafe.Many of the buildings in the Old Town are in need of repair but this gives it charm. Children play outside and cats and dogs wander around and you can't help thinking that life here hasn't changed much at all in centuries. To service the dwellings, vehicles do enter the area but have to pull their wing mirrors in to get through the narrow arches in the old city wall.
