Over a hundred visitors celebrated St. Martin’s Day at the Alto Tâmega e Barroso Tourism Office
The Alto Tâmega e Barroso Tourism Office (PTAT) celebrated St. Martin’s Day once again. On November 12th, all visitors who passed by the facilities of this Post could taste the typical roasted chestnuts and jeropiga from the municipality of Valpaços.
More than 100 visitors had the opportunity to taste the chestnuts offered by the “Agrifuturo Association”, with the support of the “Chaves Scouts” Association that roasted them.
While the visitors were enjoying the chestnuts, accompanied by the typical jeropiga, they were presented with the “Jewish chestnut”, originally from the municipality of Valpaços, and were informed that it is in the Padrela Mountain Range, which is located in the largest patch of Jewish chestnut in Europe, being in parallel one of the main centers of chestnut production in Portugal and where it can be found the largest continuous patch of chestnut trees of all the Iberian Peninsula.
