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More than eight centuries ago, Silves (then known as Chelb) was one of the strongest outposts in 12th-century Arab Iberia, a magnificent city with palaces, gardens, bazaars, and a huge red castle on a hill.
They sailed upon the river port of Silves and, ignoring conditional offers of surrender, slew all the inhabitants (at no small loss to themselves) and pillaged the great treasures of the city.
Back down the main road toward Portimão, a turn-off to Silves leads to the former Moorish capital of the Algarve.
The hills around Silves are a prosperous farming region; figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, clementines, and pomegranates are grown in abundance in mile after mile of orchards.
Today the town, known as Silves, (see page 38) is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.