The Hat Museum was born from an old hat factory. Unique in the Iberian Peninsula, the museum is a tribute to the men and women who made the hat industry one of the most important activities in the history of S. João da Madeira. In this space you’ll find images and pieces that illustrate the way hats are produced, as well as the human, social and cultural dimension of a community for which this activity has always had an important role. Visit the long-term exhibitions, get to know the life of the workers of this industry and go back in time to a time when no one would leave their house without a hat.
Location: Rua António José de Oliveira Júnior, 501 – https://goo.gl/maps/gP2e68iD4pLdTFTU9
Website: https://www.museudachapelaria.pt/
The Shoe Museum emerges in an innovative way in the national museological panorama by portraying the memory of the shoe industry in S. João da Madeira and the reality of footwear design in Portugal in the 20th century, pointing to paths of the technological and creative vanguard of the 21st century.
This is an option dictated by the historical importance of S. João da Madeira in the context of shoe production at national level and by the physical and symbolic framework of the Museum within a broader strategy based on culture and creativity as factors of local development. More than a mere exhibition of artifacts, the Shoe Museum is a space for learning, creativity and experimentation that will require from its visitors a posture of interactivity and permanent questioning.
Location: Rua António José de Oliveira Júnior, 591 – https://goo.gl/maps/Ub3rveEWtXQQ68fYA
Website: https://www.museu-do-calcado.pt/
The Oliva Art Center is an art exhibition and collection management center created in 2013 by the Municipality of São João da Madeira as part of the reconversion project of one of the most symbolic industrial buildings in the city: the Oliva factory and foundry. It is the only artistic institution in the country dedicated to contemporary art and raw/outsider art. With an exhibition area of around two thousand five hundred square meters, organized in three galleries, it presents an annual program of temporary exhibitions. The exhibition program presents on a regular and continuous basis the art collections on deposit at the Center along with exhibitions of established artists, national and international.
Location: Rua Paula Rego – https://goo.gl/maps/QgEofZzq5Wf3gXKJ9
Website: http://www.centrodearteoliva.pt/
The Ul River Park is a leisure area with many green areas and thousands of trees, ideal for hiking and cycling. It has a bar, reception, environmental interpretation centre and showers.
The biological diversity, the cultural and patrimonial aspects, the centrality and easy mobility make the Ul River Park a privileged amphitheater of the city, where it is possible to develop multiple activities that not only celebrate the cultural and patrimonial heritage of S. João da Madeira, but also the environment, sustainability, well-being and good neighborhood.
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Location: Av. do Vale – https://goo.gl/maps/aAc9JZ3bsbNGMppC6
Website: https://turismoindustrial.cm-sjm.pt/parque-do-rio-ui
The enclosure of the municipal swimming pools of S. João da Madeira, in the Paulo Pinto Sports Complex, became a water park in the summer of 2016 – a new offer that made this equipment even more attractive for people from all over the region.
There are two large water slides, the largest of which is about 70 meters long, while the other is about 30 meters long.
In this way, this large municipal outdoor leisure space, which has three swimming pools – one of 50 meters, one of jumps and one of children –, children’s playground, extensive lawn and bar, now also offers an area of water slides and “toboggans” and playful water equipment for the little ones. This appreciation of the outdoor pools has further reinforced its status as a major pole of regional attraction.
Location: Av. Eng. Arantes e Oliveira, 529 – https://goo.gl/maps/xSQVkAW3nanF9Q2NA
Outdoor cinema
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including best picture
Location: Praça Luís Ribeiro – https://goo.gl/maps/q5ep7mgwMMuND7rDA
Multicultural concert
Music Band of S. João da Madeira and invited groups
Location: Praça Luís Ribeiro – https://goo.gl/maps/q5ep7mgwMMuND7rDA
Youth in celebration
With DJ Gómez and Seu Rosa
Location: Praça Luís Ribeiro – https://goo.gl/maps/q5ep7mgwMMuND7rDA
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Location: Ul River Park – https://goo.gl/maps/aAc9JZ3bsbNGMppC6
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The Mother Church of S. João da Madeira was built in 1884, in the space previously occupied by an earlier parish church – a smaller church with another alignment (north-south).
This temple imposes itself by the sobriety of its architectural lines and by the grandeur and solidity of this building.
Authored by the great Master of Engineering, Professor António Araújo e Silva, from the Porto School, the Mother Church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, patron saint of the city.
An enormous wealth and variety can be found in its interior, both in gilded carving and in iconographic and cultural motifs.
The Roman military road of Talóbriga and Lancóbriga passed behind this church. The ways of Santiago and Fatima pass through the Mother Church and there are many who stop there for an encounter with God.
The feast in honor of St. John the Baptist is celebrated on the Sunday closest to June 24.
Location: Rua da Igreja – https://goo.gl/maps/xeq3jhfuqydUU6i26
The Chapel of St. Anthony is a religious monument located in Largo de Santo António, right in the center of São João da Madeira.
A previous temple dated 1680 existed in the same location, and came to be demolished in 1934, to make way for this chapel that was inaugurated in 1935, by the architect João Queirós. This construction takes place shortly after the elevation of S. João da Madeira to municipal seat, in 1926.
The feast of St. Anthony is the highest moment of the liturgical life of this chapel, a date that is prepared with a novena, much participated. On June 13, the Mass includes the blessing of the bread and the carnation flowers, rites already rooted in the religiosity of the people of São João da Madeira.
Location: Largo de Santo António, 95 – https://goo.gl/maps/MdANSXXh72zsjTPKA
The construction of the Chapel of St. Mary in Casaldelo dates from the year 1903. It was built by António Ferreira Porto.
It is located to the south of the parish, integrated in an area of vast buildings and farms. It also serves some neighboring population of Cucujães.
On the gable of the front of the chapel one can find a small image of the patron saint, in marble, embedded in a niche. Inside, the chancel features a modern altarpiece, crafted in lacquer and plaster, and decorated with the sculpture of St. Mary.
Location: Rua de Moçambique – https://goo.gl/maps/giM79UrWAfvjfGuf9
The Chapel of Our Lady of Miracles is a sanctuary located in the Park of Our Lady of Miracles, a large green space, offered to the city by a group of local patrons, which makes it the oldest park in the city of São João da Madeira.
The religious temple, where Mary is venerated under the invocation of Our Lady of Miracles, was built thanks to donations made by the population and inaugurated in 1938, in an act presided by the then Bishop of Porto, D. António Augusto de Castro Meireles.
Its architectural style dates back to the neo-Romanesque, having on its façade an image of Christ crucified, in marble.
The feast in honor of Our Lady of Miracles is traditionally celebrated on the last weekend in the month of May.
Location: Rua São João de Brito, 270 – https://goo.gl/maps/yM5CwwS9DuUyezNw9
The history of the Chapel of Parrinho began to be written on May 13, 1984. With Father Moura de Aguiar, the location is defined: in the north of the city, to be able to provide pastoral support to the new residents who settled there during a period of great population growth of São João da Madeira.
However, the temporary facilities proved incapable of meeting the needs. Therefore, a new temple began to be constructed in 2010, which since 2012 already allowed for the celebration of the Eucharist. However, it would be on May 13, 2018 that the new temple came to be dedicated, with a new pipe organ being installed at that occasion.
The chapel is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, next to a road where many pilgrims head towards the Sanctuary of Fatima.
The feast of the patron saint, Lady of Fatima, is celebrated on May 12 and 13, coinciding with the date of the dedication of the chapel.
Location: Rua do Parrinho – https://goo.gl/maps/HyHGqa9F17We9egn7
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Oliveira Júnior Elementary and Secondary School
Av. Adelino Amaro da Costa, 342 – https://goo.gl/maps/JLckttf8RDyvXGMh8
CEI – Center for Integral Education
Rua Jornal O Regional, 372 – https://goo.gl/maps/Cxf2EVwpgXSkSYi5A
Parish Center of São João da Madeira
Rua do Dourado, 27 – https://goo.gl/maps/G1ghxZMiMnbBdWLTA
Bacana
Av. Benjamin Araujo, 24 – https://goo.gl/maps/1S3zo7kuxCzXAKZL9
Casa da Natureza
Av. Manuel Vieira Araújo, 181 – https://goo.gl/maps/gPzcbdZ69E4YJKrV8
Churrasqueira Monumental
Rua Fonte Cova, 174 – https://goo.gl/maps/vJiVJe5WWsS9V49AA
Paris Tropical
Rua Durbalino Laranjeira, 11 – https://goo.gl/maps/5wFzwyWNCeafBbcR6
Sambabá
Rua Visconde de São João da Madeira, 2299 – https://goo.gl/maps/SgnmkHmCmMwYijvM8
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Rua Infante Dom Henrique, 48 – https://goo.gl/maps/4hMPVq9xs6c2wA758
Oliveira Júnior Elementary and Secondary School (canteen)
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