Jardim do Coreto (or Palmeiras)
Tavira’s oldest public garden
This stretches along the right bank of the River Gilão, in the old Ribeira area.
The construction of this tree-lined space began in the 19th century, to provide a place for people to relax and socialise, similar to Public Promenade areas in other Portuguese and European cities. In the centre of the garden there is a bandstand, an example of late-19th century iron architecture, which was manufactured in a foundry in Porto and erected in 1890.
For decades, music bands played on this bandstand, animating afternoons and evenings in the town. Later, in the 1940s, a small artificial lake was built around the bandstand. In the area of this garden there are some statutes, namely a bust in honour of the poet Isidoro Pires (1894-1958) and another dedicated to the mathematician and journalist António Cabreira (1868-1953), as well as an epigraph dedicated to the musician Sebastião Leiria (1918-1972).
Freguesia: Tavira other points of interest that may also interest you
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Cultural HeritagePraça da República square
One of the most emblematic places in the city of Tavira, with its origins dating back to the expansion of the town beyond its old quarters and into new areas along the right bank of the Gilão river
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Cultural HeritageTown Hall
With its main façade facing onto the Praça da República square, this is a building with Renaissance-style architectural features throughout its two-storey structure and arcades
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