Santa Bárbara de Nexe

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Santa Bárbara de Nexe is a village (freguesia, in Portuguese) in the municipality of Faro on the Algarve, in southern Portugal. It is located a few kilometers from Loulé. It has an area of 37.93 km² and a population of 4,119 (as of 2001). The economy is based on tourism and agriculture.

[edit] History

Human settlement in the area of Santa Bárbara de Nexe goes back to the Middle Paleolithic (around 30,000 years). Later, the area was invaded by the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs. The eldest known town in the area is the Roman settlement Sexto Numísio Eros from the second century AD, mentioned on a local gravestone. The eldest reference to a place called "Nexe" appears in 1291 in a chart about the boundaries of Faro and Loulé.

[edit] Trivia

The village is home of Eddie's Bar, a bar dedicated to the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.