The Foundation has an auditorium, a library mostly for the youngsters and a music school. The Fundação Lord opened on June 18, 1998, with the aim of giving its contribute to education, sports, science, the arts and social support, thus contibuting to the development of the Lordelo parish.

The Casa da Cultura (Culture House) is also named "Palacete da Granja" (Granja Manor) because it was built by a Portuguese that had come back from Brazil in 1822. One can appreciate some south American features such as the yellow tiles in the façades and the large doors and windows. A special note to the huge garden that surrounds the building. The House is used for cultural and recreational purposes and it has eexcellent exhibitions rooms and an auditorium with 187 seats. It has also an open air amphitheatre, located in its magnificent garden.

Small bandstand located in Jardim de Borba, close to the well-known Fonte das Bicas.

This environmental education centre, located in the Natural Park of Ria Formosa, provides all the information about this park, in addition to release additional environmental oriented entities. Here we can visit exhibitions, attend workshops and show movies.

In an old reclassified agricultural property, visitors are invited to discover the rural world and to adopt sustainable lifestyle habits and to protect the environment, through a set of educational and leisure activities. It has themed gardens, a picnic area, biological vegetable gardens, bicycles, a treetop adventure park, a children's climbing wall and a Canine Training Centre.

It brings together a collection of around two thousand drawings by the painter Júlio Resende. This space develops a vast educational service and promotes the most diverse cultural events, with emphasis on temporary exhibitions, concerts, conferences and workshops.

Installed in the Macau Pavilion, in Parque Adão Barata, this gallery was built with the aim of bringing the population closer to the arts, therefore offering permanent exhibitions of artists recognized in the national and international scene.

The Casa das Artes de Arcos de Valdevez is located in a building of the 1700s, classed in 1982 as a Public Interest Construction and known as the House of the "Terreiro" or of the "Conselheiro". It has a vast cultural programme and welcomes different artistic areas, namely cinema, music, fine arts and theatre.

Ample space, located in the city centre, consisting of the Cine-Teatro garden, the Congress Hall (Hall of Magnolias), the Municipal Galleries, the Internet space and the youth information Office.

A modern and well equipped space that welcomes art exhibitions, seminars and congresses.