Beyond the City Gate, the visitor reaches a crossroads: to the left, the Arab baths and the City Hall, which we shall save for later; straight ahead, the current Rua da Sé, the medieval straight street, the main axis of the city connecting the castle, the church and heading towards the port, through this gate where we are currently standing. “Trusting”, as the saying goes in Portugal, “that all the saints shall help us on the way down”, we shall save its importance for the return journey. We shall opt not for the Rua da Sé, but for the street to our right, the so-called Porta de Loulé. We are entering an area that in former times from the definitive Christian reconquest until the end of the 15th Century, was the Jewish quarter, where believers in the Tora were confined...to be continued...
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