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Stories, news and behind the scenes of Portuguese craft. What’s happening in the workshops, at the fairs and at Ra-Ro.

Instrumentos Valente
17.12.2024

Instrumentos Valente

After training his hands to carve didgeridoos during his teenage years, Diogo Valente enrolled at university to study dental prosthetics, where, in addition to manual dexterity, he also trained his...

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Regionalarte
16.12.2024

Regionalarte

Jorge Lima and his wife Esmeralda wake up every day to views of the sunny hills of São Marcos da Serra, where they care for 100 hectares of wild medronho trees with a stunning landscape overlooking...

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Vinho dos Mortos
15.12.2024

Vinho dos Mortos

This tradition is kept alive by the hands of the sole current producer of Wine of the Dead, Nuno Pereira. His family has produced this wine for as long as anyone can remember, with the ancestral ho...

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Porta da Loja
14.12.2024

Porta da Loja

It starts with a tree. A family tree. The Casais family tree, from Tibães, the ones who vowed to bring the unique Porta da Loja Apple back from near extinction. 

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Ecolã
13.12.2024

Ecolã

In 1995, João Clara de Assunção returned to Manteigas from Lisbon to revitalize the family business, Ecolã, founded in 1925.

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Quinta dos Fumeiros
12.12.2024

Quinta dos Fumeiros

Deolinda Campelo is the second act of a story that began in 1988 when her mother, Aurora Miranda do Rego, started a small family business raising pigs with time and care for the animals and the lan...

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Zimbro Licores Serrano
11.12.2024

Zimbro Licores Serrano

It was the late 1980s when Artur Aleixo went in search of an ancient legend on the slopes of the Serra da Estrela mountains: he wanted to recreate the secret nectar that the hero Viriatus must have...

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