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Alte is a village and civil parish located in the municipality of Loulé
Loulé

Loul? is a city and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 764.2 km? and a total population of 62,295 inhabitants. The city proper has a population of 12,103....
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
. Away from the tourist-crowded coast, Alte is known as one of the most typical and unspoilt villages in the region of the Algarve
Algarve

The Algarve is the southernmost region of mainland Portugal Portugal. It has an area of 5,412 square kilometres with approximately 410,000 permanent inhabitants, and incorporates 16 municipalities....
. Namely, the whitewashed houses, traditional chimney
Chimney

A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside Earth's atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack effect....
s, and cobbled alleys of the Algarve are omnipresent. The Portuguese
Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
 poet Cândido Guerreiro was born in Alte, in 1871.








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Alte is a village and civil parish located in the municipality of Loulé
Loulé

Loul? is a city and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 764.2 km? and a total population of 62,295 inhabitants. The city proper has a population of 12,103....
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
. Away from the tourist-crowded coast, Alte is known as one of the most typical and unspoilt villages in the region of the Algarve
Algarve

The Algarve is the southernmost region of mainland Portugal Portugal. It has an area of 5,412 square kilometres with approximately 410,000 permanent inhabitants, and incorporates 16 municipalities....
. Namely, the whitewashed houses, traditional chimney
Chimney

A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside Earth's atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack effect....
s, and cobbled alleys of the Algarve are omnipresent. The Portuguese
Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
 poet Cândido Guerreiro was born in Alte, in 1871.

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