Feira dos Santos, do Mel e da Castanha
Held every All Saints Day at this schist-valley town on the edge of the Serra do Açor, this free fair gathers honey, chestnut, folk music, a torresmada cooked the old way and a traditional magusto for the whole community.
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"A beloved ten-day summer fair held inside the medieval walled town of Trancoso, one of Portugal's Aldeias Históricas, combining a traditional street market, folk performances and the patron saint festivities of São Bartolomeu."
Feira de São Bartolomeu
"One of Portugal's most celebrated Marian pilgrimage romarias, drawing thousands of devotees up the baroque stairway to the sanctuary above Lamego, with processions, folk bands and a famous car-of-flowers parade."
Romaria de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios
"A deeply rooted annual festival in the heart of the Douro wine country that blends Pombaline-era heritage with wine culture, processions, folk music and community celebrations across São João da Pesqueira."
Vindouro, Festas Pombalinas
"The closing event of Alpiarça's season-long village festa programme, bringing music, folclore and local tradition to the small Ribatejo hamlet of Frade de Baixo each September."
Festas Populares do Frade de Baixo
"A month-long October gastronomic festival across fourteen restaurants in the Lousã municipality, showcasing seasonal dishes built around Serra da Lousã DOP honey, chestnuts, wild mushrooms and local cheeses as autumn descends on the schist villages."
Festival Gastronómico Sabores de Outono
"A four-year-old October festival in a small Zêzere valley town celebrates the bucho recheado, a slow-baked stuffed pork stomach unique to the Beira Baixa, with showcookings, a confraria workshop, folk music and rancho folklore groups."
Festival Gastronómico do Bucho Recheado
"An outdoor jazz and wine evening in the vine-covered Setubal Peninsula town of Palmela, pairing live music with Castelao and Moscatel wines from the surrounding DOC estates."
Palmela Wine Jazz
"Since 1963, Palmela's wine-harvest festival fills the hilltop town with the Cortejo dos Camponeses, a barefoot grape-treading ceremony, blessing of the first must, and a week of concerts under the castle walls."
Festa das Vindimas de Palmela
"In the terraced wine village of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, visitors can tread grapes barefoot in large wooden vats exactly as it has been done for centuries, while local quintas open their doors for folk music and wine."
Vindima ao Vivo no Estreito de Câmara de Lobos
"A dedicated celebration of the ancient Alentejo tradition of Vinho de Talha, featuring showcookings, tutored tastings and food pairings centred on wine fermented in 2,000-year-old clay amphorae in the heartland town of Vidigueira."
Talha à Mesa
"Organised by the Casa do Povo in Madeira's westernmost village, this rural apple festival brings together farmers from across the municipality for live apple-crushing, folk dancing, tastings and cookery workshops."
Festa do Pero
"Deep in Madeira's Valley of the Nuns, this chestnut harvest festival, the oldest of its kind in Portugal dating to 1983, fills the mountain village of Curral das Freiras with roasted chestnuts, poncha, a colourful allegorical parade of over 350 costumed figures, and traditional music."
Festa da Castanha