The Chestnut Festival – Chestnut Fair returns to Marvão on 11 and 12 November. The Municipality of Marvão is promoting the Chestnut Festival – Chestnut Fair, in honour of an endogenous species of the municipality and the region, the chestnut tree, and its fruit, the chestnut. Over the course of this weekend, Marvão will be transformed into a huge showcase of the rural world, with three traditional magustos, a local produce market, exhibitions, handicrafts, gastronomy, sweets and lots of entertainment in the streets of the town. You’ll also be able to find craftspeople working on traditional chestnut shell embroidery and chestnut wood basketry. These handicrafts are made from chestnut wood and are part of Marvão’s cultural heritage. The Marvão chestnut, considered by the organisations that oversee the sector to be a protected product of origin (PDO), is a fruit limited to the geographical area of Marvão, Castelo de Vide and Portalegre. It is obtained from chestnut trees which, given their location, produce fruit with unique characteristics and flavours.