A fruit orchard full of golden oranges, rows of fig trees just coming into leaf in the foreground and whitewashed houses with red roofs and lacy chimneys in the background.

Nowadays, the Algarve’s image is associated with citrus fruit orchards, but in dry and sunny land many fig trees, almond trees and carob trees grow and constitute the “dryland orchard”.

With large areas of fig trees the Algarve exported dry figs for centuries, with high impact on the regional economy. [...]. According to the Tora the fig is one of the seven foods which grow in the Promised Land. According to the Bible Adam covered himself with the fig leaf.

The citrus fruit orchards are widely spread in the Algarve.
The sweet orange was brought in the 16th century from China to Europe by the Portuguese. They are called “portuguesas” in various countries, especially in the Balkans. Google

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