Festa das Vindimas de Palmela
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.
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"Alcochete's defining summer festival honours the campino herdsman, the forcado bull-handler and the salineiro salt-worker with street bull-runs, traditional Tejo river-boat parades, a sardine night and solemn procession to Nossa Senhora da Vida."
Festas do Barrete Verde e das Salinas
"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
"Palmela's 12th-century hilltop castle becomes the stage for a three-day medieval fair with jousting, costumed traders, period crafts and open-air banquets inside the ancient fortifications."
Feira Medieval de Palmela
"The small agricultural village of Quinta do Anjo, within Palmela's wine country, holds its traditional All Saints patronal festival over four days with masses, folk music, local food stalls and community processions."
Festa de Todos os Santos
"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
"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
"A two-week autumn gastronomic route through the restaurants of Fundão town, celebrating Serra da Gardunha produce including game, mushrooms, chestnuts and local wines, endorsed by the Aldeias do Xisto network."
Fundão, Aqui Come-se Bem - Sabores de Outono