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Amarante

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Amarante
  • The festival of Sao Goncalo takes place on the first weekend in June. Locals believe that women who venerate the saint will find love in the coming year.
  • To celebrate the feast day, bakers make sweet cakes in phallic shapes; this practice is believed to have originated as a pagan fertility ritual.
  • Amarante is a popular stop-off for wine tasting tours in the Douro Valley.
  • You can see the tomb of Sao Goncalo in the town’s church.