Menir do Padrão, the only one that is standing upright in the area.
More than a hundred menhirs exist in the Algarve; most of them in Vila do Bispo.
Many are broken but the remaining pieces are still lying in the fields.
As part of a larger Megalithic culture that flourished in Europe and beyond, Menhirs were erected in many different periods across the pre-history.
They must have had a function but speculation as to their use remains only speculation.