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A Oficina

A Oficina

Located in the heart of Guimarães, A Oficina is a store, an art gallery, an artistic co-producer, a sponsor of creation grants, and an inclusive artistic community. A true contemporary cultural beacon in a city rich in History.

Inside the space, you can find artisans like Sameiro Fernandes or Maria da Conceição Ribeiro working on the Bordado de Guimarães (Guimarães Embroidery), using 21 stitches, reproducing 19th-century motifs, with a strict palette of six colors (red, blue, beige, grey, white, black). Sameiro and Maria are two of only eight certified artisans to execute this technique that combines refined and popular embroidery.

Guarding stories, gestures, and time, A Oficina is more than a physical space. Here, heritage and modernity are not kept behind display cases: they live, they are touched, and they are passed from hand to hand.

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Isidoro Ramos

Isidoro Ramos

Esparto is not cut. It is pulled.
Isidoro Ramos returned to the fields where he grew up. And revived the tradition that his grandmother's and mother's hands taught him. So that Algarve esparto does not disappear from the hills where it still grows.

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Salinas do Samouco

Salinas do Samouco

In the Tagus estuary, the Salinas do Samouco were once the country's largest producers. Today, Marinha do Canto endures - where the salt, stubborn, remained.

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Salina Greens

Salina Greens

Onde o sal não é sal.
Na Salinas Green, a paisagem não é cenário. É sistema vivo.
Aqui, as plantas crescem onde a terra encontra o sal e o alimento nasce da sua regeneração.

 

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