Saint Martin Festivities

This annual religious event takes place at the Church of São Martinho, where people traditionally bake the last of the chestnut harvest, celebrate the goodness of São Martinho, and taste the new wines made from the previous year's crop. Legend has it that St. Martin, a Roman soldier, met a beggar on a bitterly cold November day and tore his cloak in two to share it — a story that lives on in the festival's spirit of giving.