Talha à Mesa
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.
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"A quietly spectacular village romaria in the Castro Verde countryside where the farming community of São Marcos de Ataboeira gathers at the whitewashed ermida to honour Nossa Senhora de Aracelis with processions and folk music."
Festa de Nossa Senhora de Aracelis
"A historic religious and popular festival in the marble-walled market town of Estremoz, marking the Exaltation of the Holy Cross with street celebration, processions and the convivial arraial atmosphere of rural Alentejo."
Festas da Exaltação de Santa Cruz
"A deeply rooted border-country pilgrimage shared between Ourique and Santa Clara-a-Saboia, drawing faithful from across the Baixo Alentejo to honour Nossa Senhora da Cola with processions and communal celebration."
Festa de Nossa Senhora da Cola
"A traditional parish festa in the small Évora-district village of Azaruja, where the whole community turns out for the feast of Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo with street animation, processions and cante alentejano."
Festa de Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo
"A faith-filled autumn romaria in the tiny Alegrete hamlet of Besteiros de Cima, where pilgrims gather among the cork-oak montado to venerate Nossa Senhora da Lapa with processions, music and village conviviality."
Festa de Nossa Senhora da Lapa
"A summer patronal celebration in this small Estremoz-area parish dedicated to Nossa Senhora das Vitórias, featuring processions, arraial dancing and the communal village supper that marks the Alentejo's festival high season."
Festas de N.ª Sr.ª das Vitórias
"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
"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