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AngraJazz

	Year after year, in October, the Angra do Heroísmo International Jazz Festival, has progressively affirmed its position as one of the leading jazz festivals in Portugal.
Counting on the participation of well/known North-American and European jazz musicians, Angrajazz obligatorily includes at least one national group and one regional group, thus fulfilling one of its main objectives -- the innovation and development of interest in jazz in the Azores.
Date 2007-10-04 / 2007-10-06

Festas da Ria

	If you are in the centre of Portugal in July or August, don't miss the Festas da Ria (Festivity of the Estuary), which bring added life and animation to the city of Aveiro. Given its vital role in the life of the region, the Ria estuary has a Festivity specially dedicated to it.
The high point of the event is the regatta of seaweed boats - colourful seaweed fishing vessels that are dedicated to catching seaweed vegetation from the estuary - which constitutes one of the local population’s traditional economic activities in the area.

Holy Week Festivals

Experience Holy Week in the ancient city of Braga, in the region Porto e Norte. The city is decorated with motifs related to the occasion and the passos, street-side altars, are filled with flowers and lights, complementing the sumptuousness of the churches.

2007-04-05 / 2007-04-08

Campo Maior Flower Festival

Place: Campo Maior Witness the Flower Festival in Campo Maior, and see a town decorated with paper and colour. The streets are adorned with flowers and paper in brightly coloured compositions (the festival is normally held in the first week of September by consensus of the residents).

From Rodin to Kandinsky and Miró – the Lamerdin Collection

For three months, Amarante will be bringing together some of the most important names in 19th and 20th-century painting and sculpture, whose works are now on exhibition at the Museum dedicated to the great Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This exhibition will be open to the public from 28 October to 28 January and displays 63 works of painting, sculpture, drawings and silkscreen prints from the

Lamerdin collection, originating from Wiesloch, a German town that is twinned with Amarante. The collection includes works by such artists as Picasso, Degas,Chagall, Rodin, Kandinsky, Braque, Toulouse-Lautrec and Miró and covers many different epochs and artistic styles.

This unique opportunity is also an ideal occasion for visiting one of the best Portuguese museums of modern art, where, besides the valuable works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, the museum’s patron, you’ll also find works by Vieira da Silva, António Carneiro, Júlio Pomar, Sarah Afonso, Júlio Resende and José de Guimarães, amongst others.

Date
2006-10-28 / 2007-02-18

Sanjoaninas

The Sanjoaninas, which take place in June, are the biggest popular festivities in the Azores and offer a visiting card for many tourists who journey to Terceira island, in order to partake in and share local traditions and customs. The Sanjoaninas festivities date back to the XVI century and

have always played a key role in the culture of the Azores. They begin with the opening procession and march of the queen and continue for several days, encompassing cultural, recreational, ethnographic and sporting activities. One of the highpoints of the festivities is the Sanjoaninas Bullfighting Festival which is one of the most important events of its kind in the Iberian peninsular and includes bullfights, bullfights with ropes and bull runs in the streets.

Date
2007-06-22 / 2007-07-01

Encontros da Imagem

	Now celebrating over 20 years, the Encontros da imagem photography festival, is held in Braga in September/October each year, and constitutes a leading visual arts event at the national and international level. Involving wide-ranging participation by Portuguese and foreign artists, the Encontros da imagem festival shows works in various areas of photography
– including historical, documentary and conceptual photography. The exhibitions are coordinated by the Museum of the Image and are held in various venues in the city, including the Casa dos Crivos, the Castle Keep, the Biscainhos Museum and the Monastery of Tibães

Vilar de Mouros Festival

	Vilar de Mouros is the oldest festival in Portugal. For three days in July it attracts an older public, as well as the younger people who usually flock to the summer festivals. The bill features national rock bands and established international ones.
Besides the quality music, you will discover some amazing countryside and the hospitality of the residents of the friendly village of Vilar de Mouros.

2007-07-20 / 2007-07-22

Estoril International Showjumping Competition

Horse fans cannot afford to miss the International Showjumping Competition that, in July, will be bringing some of the best horsemen and women in the world to Cascais. The Estoril International Showjumping Competition is part of the Global Champions Tour, which includes eight heats held on both the European and American continents. The event has been awarded the CSI/five-star classification, the highest distinction in the sport.

This top-class competition is being held in Portugal for the second time and will once again take place at the Manuel Possolo Hippodrome, a venue that is now almost 70 years old and has recently been improved and equipped with excellent technical facilities, testifying to the longstanding equestrian traditions to be found in the cosmopolitan town of Cascais.

Date
2007-07-20 / 2007-07-22

Portugal Open

Place : Quinta da Marinha Oitavos Golfe - Cascais
The Portugal Open is the main international golf competition held in Portugal and is part of the calendar of the PGA European Tour circuit. Contested on Portugal's best golf courses, under a blue sky, it is an opportunity to see well known players.

Date
2007-03-29 / 2007-04-01

World sailing championships

Place : Cascais
Between June 28 and July 13, 2007 the Olympic class world sailing championships will be held in Cascais. This competition aims to ascertain 75% of the qualifying participants for the sailing competitions in the 2008 Peking Olympic Games. Around 1700 sailors, from 70 countries, and over 1000 vessels are expected to take part in the event.

Cascais today was chosen to host this event due to its natural conditions, which establish it as a leading venue for international sailing, since it is considered to be one of the finest areas in the world for organizing regattas and nautical sports.

Date
2007-06-28 / 2007-07-13

Medieval Days in Castro Marim

	Place : Castro Marim At the end of August, Castro Marim returns to the Middle Ages, in a highly rigorous historical recreation. During four days and nights, the castle of Castro Marim once again plays host to kings and queens, knights in shining armour, jesters, buffoons, noblemen and ladies, as the entire
Court make a procession before the admiring gazes of many visitors that travel to the event every year. Jousting tournaments, on foot and on horseback, street theatre performances, banquets accompanied by medieval music and a handicrafts and merchandise fair, complement the entertainment activities of these Medieval Days, enabling us to relive the magic and mystery of times gone by.

Burning of the Ribbons

Place : Coimbra
Witness the Burning of the Ribbons, an academic tradition going back centuries, that takes place in Coimbra, in May. Parades, dancing and serenades fill the streets of the city, one of the oldest university towns in Europe.

Date
2007-04-29 / 2007-05-11

Festivities of the Holy Queen

Place : Coimbra
In even numbered years, in July, Coimbra celebrates the festivities of its patron saint – the Holy Queen Isabel. The festivities last around one month and include various performances, exhibitions, gastronomy/handicrafts fairs, sporting competitions and lots of entertainment.

The high point is the solemn procession dedicated to the Holy Queen, in which the wooden framework carrying her effigy, weighing around 1 ton, is transported by twenty four men through the main streets of the city between the Graça Church and the Convent of Santa Clara–a-Nova, following a trajectory that Queen Isabel de Aragão herself walked down many times when she lived in Coimbra in the 14th century.

Date
2008-07-01 / 2008-07-31

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