The first weekend in August is a party at Cortelha with the 16th edition of Manjares Serranos and the Folklore Festival of Serra do Caldeirão.
According to the Association of Friends of Cortelha, «all those who visit Cortelha during the first weekend of August will have the opportunity to taste traditional dishes of the Algarve cuisine, such as maize porridge, rooster with chickpeas, wild boar stew, pig's ear, chorizo sausage, arbutus brandy, among many others».
The event starts at 18:00 on Saturday, with the opening of Tasquinhas, where you can enjoy these delicacies. Music is also one of the highlights of the party and at 19 pm the mountain dance begins with Eulália Nunes.
At 21 pm, the 00th edition of the Serra do Caldeirão Folklore Festival begins, which, according to the organization, «has become one of the most important ethnographic events in the Algarve interior».
The festival once again brings folklore groups from different geographical and cultural origins to Cortelha, «which allow visitors to learn about customs and traditions from all over the world».
Five groups will act: the Folkloric and Ethnographic Group of Albergaria-a-Velha, founded in 1984 and representing the professions of the Baixo Vouga Region, province of Beira Litoral, at the beginning of the 1983th century; the Folklore and Ethnographic Group of São José da Lamarosa, originally from Coruche, in Ribatejo; the Dance and Singing Group of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, from Maia, in the Douro Litoral, created in 2003 by a group of locals who sought to preserve the traditions of their ancestors; the Serra do Caldeirão Ethnographic Group, host group, founded in XNUMX with the aim of dynamizing and promoting the uses and customs of the Algarve interior, representing professions that over time were the economic support of the rural area, such as the cork harvester, the baker, the miller or the reaper; and also the Kartal Belediyesi Folklor Gurubu, which comes directly from Turkey to make known its culture to the Portuguese.
On Sunday, the 7th, the Tasquinhas open again at 18:00 pm and, at 19:00 pm, Sandrine starts the mountain dance. “Veredas da Memória”, a Portuguese traditional music group from São Brás de Alportel, is also part of the Manjares Serranos 2016 poster, with performance scheduled for 21 pm.
According to the Association of Friends of Cortelha, «this event, which in recent years has received dozens of Portuguese and tourists, is already a reference, constituting a double event to promote regional and national culture. The aim is to revive and remember traditional flavours, as well as making known the traditional dances and customs of other regions».
The Manjares Serranos and the Folklore Festival have free entry and are supported by the Municipality of Loulé, the Parish Council of Salir, the Algarve Tourism Region, INATEL, Albombas and the Integrated Basic School Prof. Sebastião Teixeira – Salir.
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