Description Santa Maria da Feira

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Santa Maria da Feira, is a Portuguese city belonging to the Porto Metropolitan Area, the Aveiro district, the North region and the old Douro Litoral province.

With a different cultural offer throughout the year, Santa Maria da Feira assumes itself as a true “Stage of Experiences”, where the visitor is challenged to live in the spirit of the events and invited to return whenever the culture happens.

Imaginarius - International Street Theater Festival, the Medieval Journey in Terra de Santa Maria and the Natal - Perlim theme park are the main cultural events of reference, which enhance the tourist offer of the North Region.

Santa Maria da Feira has one of the most beautiful castles in Portugal, a congress center of excellence - the Europarque and Cineteatro António Lamoso stage of an extensive and qualified annual cultural program.

Full of history, the museum spaces invite you to experience. So it is at the Terras de Santa Maria Paper Museum, the Convento dos Lóios Museum and the Santa Maria de Lamas Museum. Authentic living museum, the Zoo of Lourosa - Ornithological Park provides a journey through the wild world of birds.

Despite the proximity to large urban centers, Santa Maria da Feira preserves a unique tranquility, which invites you to stay longer. At Termas de S. Jorge, the visitor finds the ideal refuge to take care of the body and mind. An unmissable ritual is the tasting of the traditional Fogaça, ex-libris of regional cuisine and symbol of the secular Festa das Fogaceiras, the most emblematic religious festival in the North of Portugal.

The municipality of Santa Maria da Feira also has a great wealth of landscapes, especially Quinta do Castelo, municipal gardens such as Porto Carvoeiro, as well as the lake and the Europarque gardens.

Worth visiting and classified as properties of public interest are Quinta do Engenho Novo, Casa da Portela (Paços de Brandão), the Municipal Market, designed by architect Fernando Távora with mosaic notes by Siza Vieira, the Igreja da Misericórdia ( Santa Maria da Feira), Casa da Torre (São João de Ver), Quinta do Seixal (Milheirós de Poiares) and Quinta da Murtosa in Mosteirô.