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Festivals
- Harbor and Music Festival. Lisbon - During February
Combines fado, Portugal’s most traditional soul music, with a "guest musical form" from another port city. Last year it was sea chanties derived from British and American sailors.
- Fantásporto do Porto - During February
Leading international film festival in Portugal’s second city.
- Festival of the Crosses. Barcelos - During April
Celebrates the miraculous appearance in 1504 of a large cross marked across fields outside this northern city. Handicrafts, concerts, fireworks.
- Algarve Music Festival - During May
- St. Anthony's Day celebrations. Lisbon - 12.06.2004 - 13.06.2004
Parade of marchas (strolling entertainers) on the evening of the 12th; international sports event on the 13th, the day that honors the saint born in Lisbon.
- Red Waistcoat Festival. Vila Franca de Xira - During July
Running of the bulls, folk dances, bullfights.
- Madeira Wine Festival. Funchal - 12.09.2004 - 14.09.2004
Shows and folklore dances commemorating the island’s famous fortified wine and its makers.
- Jazz Festival. Porto - During November
- Wine Festival. Lisbon - During November
Public festivals, Folk festivals, Folklore
- New Year's Eve. Lisbon and Funchal - 01.01.2004
On Magic Night (Dec. 31), free spectacles in Lisbon, staged near the Tagus, in the waterfront zone between Parque das Nacoes and Alges. Also, in Funchal, Madeira, a spectacular fireworks display lights up the sky, and parties take place throughout the island in restaurants, bars and the streets.
- Carnival - March
Loulé, Nazaré and Ovar in Portugal, as well as Funchal in Madeira, are especially lively.
- Eastern - April
Parades and other festivities fill the towns of Braga, Ovar and Póvoa de Varzim.
- Madeira Flower Festival. Funchal - 03.05.2004 - 04.05.2004
Traditional Wall of Hope Festivities and the Grand Flower Parade.
- Fátima Pilgrimage - 12.05.2004 - 13.05.2004
Hundreds of thousands of Catholics descend on Our Lady of Fátima Basilica to mark the anniversary of the first of six apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Candlelight procession on the 12th, followed the next day by commemoration of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- Fátima Second Annual Pilgrimage - 12.10.2004 - 13.10.2004
Commemorating the final of six appearances of the Virgin Mary in 1917.Other
- Lisbon Half-Marathon - 17.04.2004
- Burning the Ribbons Feast (Queima das Fitas). Coimbra - During May
Students celebrate the end of the university year with shows and other merriment.
- Festival of San Gonçalo. Amarante - During June
Single, young men and women swap phallus-shaped cakes as tokens of love.
- National Day - 10.06.2004
Celebrates Portuguese independence, as well as its epic poet, Luís Vaz de Camões, who told the story of the nautical discoveries in os Lusíadas in 1572.Important trade fairs
- NAUTICAMPO - 28.02.2004 - 07.03.2004 Lisbon (Portugal)
International Exhibition of Boating, Camping, Caravanning and Sports
- LIVRO - 28.02.2004 - 14.03.2004 Braga (Portugal)
Book Fair
- INFORMATICA - May 2004 Porto (Portugal)
Data Processing and Communication Systems Exhibition
- DIDACTICA - 06.05.2004 - 09.05.2004 Porto (Portugal)
Education and Teaching Exhibition
- FIA LISBOA - 26.06.2004 - 04.07.2004 Lisbon (Portugal)
International Handicraft Exhibition
- AJUTEC/NORMEDICA - September 2004 Porto (Portugal)
International Exhibition of Technical Aid and New Technologies for Disabled People and Health
- CONCRETA - 27.10.2004 - 31.10.2004 Porto (Portugal)
International Building Materials Exhibition
- EMAF - 10.11.2004 - 14.11.2004 Porto (Portugal)
International Machine Tool and Accessories Exhibition
- NAUTICA - 04.12.2004 - 12.12.2004 Porto (Portugal)
International Boat Show