Paderne is a village and a civil parish in the municipality of Albufeira

Albufeira

Albufeira is a Portuguese municipality in the Faro District, Algarve region. Its name came from the Arabic: البحيرة . The city has a population of 13,646. The municipality has a population of 35,281 inhabitants and a total area of 140.6 km²...

, Algarve, Portugal

Portugal

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. The village is situated 7.4 miles north of the town of Albufeira, 23 miles west of Faro

Faro, Portugal

Faro is the southernmost city in Portugal. It is located in the Faro Municipality in southern Portugal. The city proper has 41,934 inhabitants and the entire municipality has 58,305. It is the seat of the Faro District and capital of the Algarve region...

 and is 151 miles from Lisbon

Lisbon

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. The village has good transport links being very close to junctions on the A2 motorway

A2 - Auto-estrada do Sul

The A2 is a major motorway in Portugal. It connects Lisbon, the capital, to the Algarve, the country's southern-most mainland province. A2 was completed in 2002. It extends for 240 km. A2 is operated by Brisa - Auto-estradas de Portugal....

 to Lisbon and the IP1 coastal motorway.
The nearest airport

Faro Airport

-Incidents and accidents:*On 21 December 1992, Martinair Flight 495 skidded off the runway in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers and two crew out of a total of 340 people on board....

 is at Faro. The nearest Railway station is at Albufeira

Albufeira

Albufeira is a Portuguese municipality in the Faro District, Algarve region. Its name came from the Arabic: البحيرة . The city has a population of 13,646. The municipality has a population of 35,281 inhabitants and a total area of 140.6 km²...

. The Population for the Parish of Paderne is 3,504 (2001 Figures) and the parish has an area of 55.64 square kilometres.

The Parish Church

The main Parish Church of Paderne is called ‘Our Lady of Assumption’ and it was built in the sixth decade of the 16th century to replace the older chapel of Nossa Senhora do Pé da Cruz (Our Lady at the foot of the Cross), which was within the precinct of the nearby castle of Paderne

Paderne

Paderne may refer to:In Portugal**Paderne, Albufeira, a parish in the municipality of Albufeira**Paderne is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of MelgaçoIn Spain...

. The building underwent significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church has a number of Manueline features combined with details in the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 style, especially on the capitals and the triumphal arch. Inside the church can be found wooden sculptures dating from the 17th and 18th Centuries. The 18th century statue of the archangel São Miguel (Saint Michael). The most noteworthy features in the church are the altarpieces in the chancel and the capele do Santíssimo (Chapel of the most Holy), both in the Baroque

Baroque

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style. There are three naves in the church.