Martim Longo
An inland village in the quiet hills of Alcoutim, with a striking 16th-century church and a deeply rural setting.
Martim Longo is a village in the hilly interior of the Alcoutim municipality, in one of the most sparsely populated parts of the Algarve. Its parish church, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição and completed in the 16th century, is the oldest building in the municipality, with Gothic doorways and unusual round buttresses; the small Espírito Santo chapel stands beside it.
The parish also has the remains of a Copper Age settlement at Cerro do Castelo. It is a place for slow drives and walks through farmland and low hills, far from the coast.