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Few Arab buildings remain, having been razed during the Reconquest, but the old quarter (Centre Historic on direction signs) still abounds with buildings of historic interest, preserved when Palma fell into decline in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
The Christians recaptured Faro in 1249, completing the Reconquest, and the city prospered, becoming the Episcopal see of the Bishop of the Algarve in 1577.
Though a castle of sorts Silves has existed here since Phoenician times, the present Castelo dos Mouros, on the site of Roman or Visigothic foundations, took shape after the Reconquest, though it preserves distinctly Moorish lines.
It was recaptured from the Moors early in the Christian Reconquest campaign and, when Afonso Henriques declared himself the first king in 1139, the Minho became the independent state of Portucale (covering an area from the Douro to the River Minho).