XX Conventual Confectionery Fair

The Figueiró dos Vinhos Convent Confectionery Fair reaches its twentieth edition, marking two decades dedicated to promoting and celebrating the traditional and ancestral arts of the region's confectionery. Over this time, the Fair has established itself as a moment of celebration of local craftsmanship, deeply rooted in the culture and gastronomy of the land. Usually held near the Convento de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, in this edition the Fair moves to a new location and takes over the Praça do Município, in the centre of Figueiró dos Vinhos. The event is free to enter and its purpose is to preserve and promote convent sweets, a confectionery heritage that lives on in the hands of those who keep it alive.

There are places that are kept in the heart of Portugal like a well-told secret, and Figueiró dos Vinhos is one of them. This parish union brings together, under the same name, Figueiró dos Vinhos and Bairradas — inland lands of stone and greenery, where time moves at a gentler pace and every square holds its own memory. The town stands as the living centre of this region, with churches, convents and towers that speak of a past of faith and order, and it is in its conventual confectionery that the land guards one of its sweetest treasures. It is precisely in the Praça do Município de Figueiró dos Vinhos that the Fair of Conventual Confectionery takes place, a perfect invitation to taste the history of this land at the table, generation after generation.