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Bullfight

"Lusoflora" - (from Wednesday till Sunday in the week of Good Shepherd) Specialized fair where is presented all floricultura and gardening production.

National Agriculture Fair - "Ribatejo Fair" (begining on the first Friday of June and going on for ten days). It's the greatest touristic attraction of the country, being considered within the agricultural matter one of most importam of Europe.

The Fair is famous also for its most precious ethnographical values, manifested in the International Folklore Festival, "largada de touros" (letting bulls off a closed area), "corrida de campinos" (herdsmen races), "condução de jogos de cabrestos" (conducting a herd of cattle), "touradas" (bullfights), steeplechase, horseracing, etc.

National Gastronomy Festival - (going on for ten or twelve days and ending on the lst November). It's the greatest demonstration of portuguesa popular cultura, w ithin its three constituem elements: gastronomy, handicraft and ethnography.

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