Almancil
Almancil () is a town and ''freguesia'' in the Loulé Municipality, in the affluent Golden Triangle region of the Algarve of southern Portugal. Almancil is known for its three Michelin star restaurants, the most of any town in the Algarve. The town had a population of 10,677 inhabitants in 2011,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of .

History

First referred to as ''Almansil'', Almancil had an Arabic origin; it was likely ''Almançal'', which means "inn" or another variant suggesting a watercourse (''Almansil''). The territory that is today Almancil remotes to the Paleolithic, with archaeological excavations unearthing vestages ...
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Church Of São Lourenço (Almancil)
The Church of São Lourenço ( pt, Igreja de São Lourenço) is a Church in the civil parish of Almancil, in the municipality of Loulé in the Portuguese Algarve. History The oldest recorded reference to this church came from 1672; the ''Livro da Freguesia de São João da Venda'', referring to the ecclesiastical parish of São João de Venda, identified the visit of prelates to the parish. It was these same prelates that on 23 May 1684, addressed the necessity of constructing a temple in the area to the parish vicar. For successive years the, starting on 7 February 1693, there were references to the temple in the same ''Livro da Freguesia'', including 16 August 1695 and 26 May 1715, but no reference to a period of construction or completion. The azulejo tile was applied to the church in 1730 by Policarpo de Oliveira Bernardes, from an inscription in the choir. Between 1868 and 1869 a wooden choir was installed, without reusing the existing tile. Two niches were constructed s ...
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