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The Podence Carnival Festival is held by the community of Podence, which belongs to the municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros, in the district of Bragança. This is a social practice related to the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It takes place between Sunday and Shrove Tuesday in the most colourful village in Portugal, Podence. In the heart of the Northeast of Trás-os-Montes, the much-acclaimed Podence Carnival – Entrudo Chocalheiro – is celebrated during the carnival week, where the Podence Caretos (a pagan performance) bring colour to the village and to the many tourists who pass through with their costumes. This ritual event, which originated in the so-called “long time”, when life was organised according to the rhythms of the agricultural cycle, refers to the festivities celebrating the end of the winter cycle and the beginning of the spring production cycle. Unique in relation to other Carnival festivities held in other parts of the country and adapting to a post-rural socio-economic context, the Podence Caretos Carnival festival today takes on its own particularities, through its elements – the mask and the costume, the behaviours that characterise the ritual and the protagonists of the festival, the masked people, known as “caretos”, and its current social function, assuming a distinctive and unique format.

Caretos Museum, entrance fee. There is a small restaurant in the space next door. The Caretos of Podence are a distinctive feature of the Trás os Montes region. The event Entrudo Chocalheiro Carnaval dos Caretos is a national and international attraction. The tradition is lost in time, a tradition that was on the verge of disappearing in the sixties and seventies, due to emigration and the Colonial War of the last century. The Careto of Podence is known for its performative behaviour, the “coalhalhadas” (the shaking of the hands) mainly performed by women, a symbolic act that harks back to a remote origin and a possible connection to ancient agrarian and fertility rituals. Today, these masked people visit the homes of neighbours and relatives in a convivial ritual, emigrants returning to their homeland. The Chocalheiro Carnival is therefore an essential moment in the lives of the descendants of Podence, who return during Carnival to continue the practice they inherited from their parents and grandparents. The Caretos thus gain even more importance for the Transmontana region, attracting more and more visitors every year. The Caretos, together with the seal of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, thus characterise a new way of looking at the tradition of a region prone to depopulation, but which manages to move thousands when, through effort and commitment, it achieves feats that are thus recognised throughout the world.

The Mother Church of São Miguel in Soutelo Mourisco, also known as the Parish Church of Soutelo Mourisco, is a late-Baroque church located in the municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros. This church boasts remarkable religious architecture, with a longitudinal layout that includes a nave, main chapel, and sacristy. The church is also the starting and finishing point of the Rota Mourisco, a circular trail of approximately 6 km that runs through the Serra de Nogueira. This trail offers magnificent views and the opportunity to enjoy nature and the tranquility of the countryside.

There are several hiking trails that will allow you to explore the surroundings and enjoy nature. Espadanedo is well connected by road and is accessible from various points in the Bragança district. You can get there by car or by public transport from Macedo de Cavaleiros.

Magnificent area that offers us a bike ride in this space full of greenery and humid forests before arriving at the town of Carrazedo.

Village is full of free-roaming dogs

Fountain above the village square