The Míscaros - Mushroom Festival is returning to the village of Alcaide, in the municipality of Fundão, from 15 to 17 November. This initiative explores and highlights the region’s strong fungal heritage.
Visitors can marvel at the surrounding nature of the Gardunha hillside, get to know different ways of cooking and tasting several species of mushrooms and other regional specialities in the characteristic taverns in the village specially prepared for the event.
On 16 November, the 6th edition of CÃOgumelo will take place, a refreshing walk full of smells and wise words from some of the guests, in the company of our ever-faithful canine friends. In an environment created around these two themes - dogs and mushrooms - the aim is, along with the two guests, to encourage the sharing and the increase of knowledge concerning both subjects. The novelty of this edition is the 1st CÃOgumelo photo contest, the challenge being to find the best photo with your canine friend during the walk. Registration, costing €3, can be made by sending an email to glocacorreia.alpetratinia@gmail.com. Further information can be obtained by calling +351 966 837 225.
Ricardo Torres, Anabela Marisa Azul and Sílvia Leão are leading this year’s edition of the Fungi Walks, scheduled for 17 November. Registrations are limited to 100 people and can be made via email to miscarosfestivalinscricoes@gmail.com.
PROGRAMME
Friday
- 7pm: Festival Opening | Live Cooking Tent
- 7pm: Traditional Entertainment
- 7.30pm: Live Cooking | Chef Flávio Silva
- 9.30pm: Live Cooking | Chef Joe Best
Street Entertainment:
KhaganiçOrchestra
Beira Brass Band
Xaral’s Dixie
Albaluna
Bordões da Beira Group
Cia Majareta – Performing Arts
The Magician Marcelo Beutrim
Infinitum – Street Theatre
Malatitsh – Street Theatre
The Mayor's Story – Street Theatre
Fados from João Morgado
SlackLine – Street Art
Miscolândia | Animativa – space for children - Laa
Saturday
- 09.30am: Cãogumelo Walk
- 10am: Street Entertainment – Traditional Music
- 11am: Fungi Perfect Workshop (Mushroom Identification Area)
- 11.30am: Span and a Half Chef Live Cooking
- 2pm: Chef Pedro Jorge
- 2.30pm: Street Entertainment
- 3pm: Lecture and identification of wild mushrooms with José Matos and Anabela Marisa Azul
- 4pm: Live Cooking | Chef Duarte Batista
- 4pm: Geo-Miscellaneous
- 4pm: Alma Azul | Community Conversations - Traditions, tales and legends from Alcaide and Beira | Alcaide Parish Council Hall
- 5.30pm: Cooking Differently - Chef Ricardo Besteiro
- 7pm: Live Cooking “Flavours of the World” | Refugees of Fundão | Solidarity Cause
- 7pm: Artistas at the Window – Live music in the village
- 9.30pm: Live Cooking | Chef Tony Martin
- 10.30pm: Sacred Drums Show - Gil Pinheiro Square
Street Entertainment:
KhaganiçOrchestra
Beira Brass Band
Bitter Almond
Albaluna
Codfish Fillets
Bordões da Beira Group
José Bonifácio
The Magician Marcelo Beutrim
Cia Majareta – Performing Arts
Infunitum - Street Theatre
Malatitsh – Street Theatre
The Mayor's Story – Street Theatre
Fados from João Morgado
SlackLine – Street Art
Miscolândia | Animativa – Space for children - Laa
Rafael Costa - Street Art
Sunday
- 8.30am: “Let’s go to the Míscaros Mushrooms” Walk Fundão – Alcaide
- 09.30am: Mycological walks with Anabela Marisa Azul, Sílvia Leão and Ricardo Ferreira
- 10.30am: Street entertainment – Traditional Music
- 11.30am: Launch of the AL-KAID Mushroom Beer – CHICA – Live Cooking Space
- 1pm: Mega Lunch – €1 | Solidarity cause – 50% goes towards raising bicycles for refugees
- 2.30pm: Street Entertainment – Traditional Music
- 2.30pm: Fungi Perfect Workshop (Mushroom Identification Area)
- 3.30pm: Tasting of mushrooms picked on the mycological walks (reserved for participants)
- 4pm: Alma Azul | Environmental and Civic Education Workshop – The Shopiaa Forest | Alcaide Parish Council Hall
- 5pm: Live Cooking | Chef Luciano Baldim – Papo d’anjo Restaurant Alpedrinha
- 6pm: Competition for the best dish of the festival with the gastronomic critic Orlando Esteves
- 7.30pm: Live Cooking | Chef Eduardo Martins |Convento do Seixo Boutique Hotel SPA – Fundão
The “Let’s go to the Míscaros Mushrooms” Walk is organised by the “Hikers of Gardunha”. Further information can be obtained by calling +351 965 705 559.
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