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The Barcelos Fair is one of the largest, older and most admired in Portugal. It takes place every week, on Thursday, this day is many years of intense movement. Its history is very long, it will come from the 13th century, it is certain that the first documents about the Barcelos fair arrived later in 1412, when King D. John at the request of his son D. Afonso, Conde Barcelos, grants a Fair of the year, lasting 15 days. The fair provides a meeting with the products, with history, wealth and value of the rural world. There is a lot of handicrafts, a large area with pottery and figured, from barcelos rooster to basketwork, iron, wooden handicrafts and here there are also toys, like the jogs, ocarins, cuckos, miniatures, mushrooms, yugos, maceiras, Reminding the time of grandparents and great-grandparents. A space where you can also discover the favorite animals of the younger ones, in a magnificent space, rich history and with many more associated stories.
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