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Our Culture Takes to the Street

September 21, 2024

Free

The Municipality of Portimão is once again associated with the European Heritage Days, this year under the motto “Heritage of Routes, Networks and Connections”.

On September 21, from 16:00 pm to midnight, “Our Culture Goes Out to the Street” in Mexilhoeira Grande, once again disclosing the uses and customs of this parish in the municipality of Portimão, with emphasis on music, gastronomy and the dissemination of the knowledge of yesteryear.

Throughout the tenth edition of this popular festival, there will be several performative moments, which will encourage the public to interact and learn about sustainable practices used in rural areas.

The arts, knowledge and flavors of Mexilhoeira Grande can be enjoyed live in the churchyard of the village, and part of the proposals is an exhibition of food products, confectionery and handicrafts, where some of the main rural activities in the municipality of Portimão will be exhibited.

 There will be no shortage of traditional games, such as the monkey, the spinning top, the marble, the donkey game and the apothecary’s handkerchief, and visitors can also participate in various workshops, learning how to make toys from other times, such as rammed earth construction and contracting, or how to make sweet bread birds.

In this choreographic work, which mixes dance and digital art, aspects of ancient agriculture and defoliation are symbolized – a cultural tradition once practiced in the municipality of Portimão, now on the verge of extinction, highlighting the legend of Senhora do Verde, as a protective entity of agriculture, land and water.

The night will end with an old-fashioned defoliation, which will be an intergenerational conviviality, in the expectation of finding the ‘king corn’, a red corn cob that, according to tradition, involves giving a hug and a kiss to all the participants in the circle.

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Date:
September 21, 2024
Cost:
Free

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