Cacela-Velha Village located in a arenítica elevation forehead to Laughs Formosa and to the sea. It was a crossing site for the Greek and Phoenician navigators, and according to some authors it is the old capital of the Cúneos, Cunistorgis. The Romans extended it and the Arabs gave prestige him. During the Islamic period and the medieval time it was an important center of population, reconquered to the Moors by Paio Peres Correia in 1240. According to the legend, after the conquest of Cacela, a truce was dictated, but seven Christian horsemen were dead traitorously by the Moors and the fury of D. Paio fell on Tavira and it conquered it. In 1283 Dionisio I he granted law to Cacela. During century XIV due to alterations of the coastline and to the constant attacks of pirates the population began to leave the villa and to take refuge in the interior. At the moment as interest points we found the strength of century XVII, some houses of traditional architecture of the ALgarve of century XVIII, the Muslim church of medieval origin, ruins, the Roman furnaces and the rest of the old medieval wall. The denomination of Cacela-Velha is recent, since this zone was well-known as Site gives Igreja.