Festas do Barrete Verde e das Salinas
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.
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"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
"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
"Held at the celebrated mountaintop sanctuary on the edge of Peneda-Gerês National Park, this major romaria draws tens of thousands of pilgrims to the shrine of São Bento on the 13th of August for an open-air mass, solemn procession and festive arraial."
Grande Romaria de São Bento da Porta Aberta
"The principal summer festa of Vieira do Minho draws pilgrims from across the Gerês foothills on Assumption Day for a solemn procession and evening arraial in this small granite-built market town."
Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
"The most important religious celebration of the Trás-os-Montes interior, held at the largest Marian sanctuary in the region on Assumption Day, drawing barefoot pilgrims from across the surrounding concelhos for a great procession and traditional fair."
Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
"On the most southerly and historically rich island of the Azores, the people of Vila do Porto honour their patron, Our Lady of the Assumption, with processions, folk music and the festive energy that defines the summer season on Santa Maria."
Festas de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
"Querença villagers mark the Assumption with a solemn procession of the Nossa Senhora statue through the whitewashed streets, accompanied by the Artistas de Minerva brass band, traditional tasquinhas and an evening baile."
Festa de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
"In this tiny Alijó village in the Douro hills, a six-day romaria lasting over 178 years features tableaux vivants on the procession andores (floats) performed by local villagers, spectacular fireworks and a fair franca, widely regarded as one of the best-organised festas in Trás-os-Montes."
Romaria de Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos