Despite Portugal’s insistence that it discovered much of the unknown world during the period called The Discoveries, it has puzzled many visitors to the Algarve that there is no appropriate museum, display or information centre to let the public know of these achievements.
At last an entrepreneur has taken it upon himself to fill the gap left by successive councils and ministries by setting up a series of waxwork displays to explain the important role that Portugal’s explorers, mercenaries and traders played in opening and maintaining trade links with Africa, India and the Far East.