The touristic
tour through the São João da Madeira’s factories and museums was born five
years go. To celebrate, there are five days of free guided tours.
In 2012, the smallest county in Portugal launched an
innovative project: take tourists to the city’s industrial patrimony, opening
historic factories to the visitors in office hours, letting them circulate
between noisy machines to see pencils, hats or shoes born in the worker’s
hands. Two months ago, the Footwear’s Museum inauguration completed the
touristic offer. Now, to celebrate the five years of the touristic circuits
through factories and museological spaces in São João da Madeira, the industrial
tourism project launches five days of free guided tours. There are two routes
per day, from January 23 to 27, from 9h30 until 12h45 and from 14h until 17h30.
They all start and finish in Oliva Tower, the iconic building of the old metallurgic
factory transformed in the project’s reception. The circuits are all different between
them and include the entrance in two spaces of the touristic network.
Since the Viarco, the only working pencils factory in the country, to
the footwear companies Helsar and Evereste, passing by the Cortadoria Nacional
de Pêlo and Fepsa, connected to the headgear industry, or the Heliotêxtil, manufacturer
of labels and trimmings. Besides the factories, the routes pass by the footwear
museums, the Portugal’s Footwear Technologic Center or the Training Center of
the Footwear Industry.
The visits are free but the previous inscription is required.
On the 26th, the circuits include a novelty: they will be adapted to
people with hearing loss, with simultaneous tradition into sign language.
The commemorations of the 5th anniversary integrate
the inauguration of an exhibition of cheetah dresses in Oliva Tower, in an “invocation
of the popular contestants which were organized by the historic company”,
refers the organization of the event, in a statement. It occurs in January 23, at 18h. The clowns show Lullaby closes de festivities on the day 27, at 21h30.
Source : Fugas-Público
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