Sardines, his usual dish companions and an animation poster led by Tony Carreira, which also includes Tiago Bettencourt and António Zambujo, will be the ingredients of the new Portimão Sardine Festival, which is the riverside walk between the Portimão Museum and the area known as “between bridges”, next to the River Arade, it will host between 12 and 16 August.
This is already a tradition in Portimão, where you can taste this delicacy, «finished fished and placed on the coals previously prepared by the specialists of the most traditional restaurants in Portimão», illustrated the Câmara de Portimão, which organizes the event.
To accompany it there is homemade bread, the typical Algarvian salad and, of course, baked potatoes. And so that everyone can go to the party, entry into the venue is free and there is a "festival dish", consisting of a slice of bread, four sardines, baked potato and Algarvian salad, which can be purchased at restaurants belonging to "a special price' during the five days.
Those who like to eat this delicacy from the sea on their plate, can purchase it in the restaurants À Ravessa, Meco, Peixarada, Forte e Feio, Zizá and Retiro do Peixe Assado.
For those who like more to eat only on bread, there are points of sale run by the local associations GEJUPCE and Boa Esperança next to the old market.
And since the festival visitor doesn't live only from sardines, there will be an exhibition area of regional arts and flavors in the open air between Jardim Bívar and Antiga Lota, where you can purchase handicrafts, jewelry, medronho brandy, sweets, snacks and many other products.
In the field of animation, there will be a lot and for different tastes. Here, the biggest star is the musician Tony Carreira, who will play on August 12th, in a concert sponsored by Continente.
Also loud are the names of António Zambujo, who plays on the last day of the festival, 16th August, and Tiago Bettencourt, who will be in Portimão on 14th August. The musical poster is completed with performances by Diogo Piçarra (August 15th) and «Volume2dois» (August 13th).
The music will also be played in the bandstand, every day of the event, between 19:30 pm and 21:30 pm. The poster, promoted by the Parish Council of Portimão, has the following artists: Tó Correia (Fado, 12 de Agosto); 3 For Tea (popular music, 13th); Pliny and the Forgotten (Music 60/70/80/90, 14th); Fonte Nova (popular music, 15th of August); and Perojectus Seven (song of the 70s, the 16th).
"In addition to all these musical proposals, there will also be the daily participation of folklore groups and accordionists, which will animate the axis of participating restaurants", added the municipality
The Câmara de Portimão also highlights the «Cardume» project, «an initiative of Galeria XXI that bet on the animation component based on tradition, focusing on the city and its fishing roots, and on numerous canning factories where sardines have always had her role as queen».
«At the invitation of this gallery, families, individuals, representatives of companies and artists are painting sardines on the walls of an old factory that once belonged to the canning industry», located on Rua Carlos I, he described.
Along the riverside area of Portimão there will be «several poles of attraction for kids and adults during these 5 nights, from children's entertainment to the Book Fair, passing through the magic with the show “Fora do Baralho”, by Mário Daniel, at TEMPO-Teatro Municipal, complemented with cultural proposals from the Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes and the Museu de Portimão», concluded the Chamber.
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