Paderne is a village and civil parish in the municipality of Albufeira, in the Portuguese region of Algarve. The population in 2011 was 3,304, in an area of 52.56 km². The name Paderne derives from the lower Latin word Paterni, which means estate of Paterno, used when the area was part of the Roman Empire. But Paderne, or as it was formerly called, Padern…Paderne is a village and civil parish in the municipality of Albufeira, in the Portuguese region of Algarve. The population in 2011 was 3,304, in an area of 52.56 km². The name Paderne derives from the lower Latin word Paterni, which means estate of Paterno, used when the area was part of the Roman Empire. But Paderne, or as it was formerly called, Paderna, was also an old toponymy whose origins were in the Lusitanian culture, signifying rough, tough, hard and intractable. The Veiga archaeological crews discovered underground galleries in the settlement that they attributed to prehistoric peoples, although local storytellers indicated that these caverns were used by Moorish peoples as barns or granaries. These galleries were once used as copper mines, but later reused by the peoples that dominated the Algarve: the Phoenicians, Romans, Goths and Arabs.
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