Parties and pilgrimages

In the Douro the faith is celebrated giving cultured to the patrons saints, in cele replete of animation and tradition.

The worthy landscape of a garden of Éden, the calm mirrored in calm waters of the river and the innumerable sanctuaries spread for mounts and valleys, become the Douro a species of paradise in the Land.

The unwavering faith of the duriense people constructed innumerable religious temples, being that many of them if find open only during the celebrations of its patron saint. The pilgrimages are multiplied throughout the year, having joined the cult of the deities the activities most festive. In the program of the celebrates never they can lack masses, musical processions, camp and performances.

During the August month, the emigrated children come back to its native land, fulling the streets, many times voted to the desertifications, during the remaining portion of the year. Portuguese popular music livens up the evening of the villages and the joy to have the congregated family is mirrored in the face of each inhabitant of the zone.