António Aleixo

Café Calcinha

Algarve

At the iconic Café Calcinha terrace, in the centre of Loulé, you can sit at the table of popular poet António Aleixo. A seller of lottery tickets and practically illiterate, Aleixo sang his poems full of irony, social criticism, and folk wisdom.

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