Creative Industrial Tourism in São João da Madeira is a set of Experience Routes that complement the offer of visits to the local industrial heritage and live industry. Inspired by models of collaborative participation, this tourist product provides visitors with the opportunity to experience the daily life of the locality, marked by industry, where a solid traditional industrial fabric is joined today by technological and creative industries, in a culturally and artistically friendly environment. stimulating.
The Experience Routes are organized into five segments – Industry, Creativity, Art/Heritage, Gastronomy and Environment –, capable of providing visitors with a range of activities. In these activities, sharing and building collaborative relationships between locals and visitors happen spontaneously.
BOOKINGS | Activities are subject to prior booking by filling out the visit request form.
The aim of this event is to provide experiences that arouse interest in technology and industry. More than just a visit to the CEI factory, this event provides an opportunity for employees at their workstations to share with visitors.
From an experience of visiting the factory, where the pencil-making process is explored, tourists are invited to enter a continuous experience of experimenting with various materials.
Image selection, scanning, photolitho pass, frame opening and various screen printing techniques. Everything you need to screen print for a day.
In this workshop, participants will have the experience of being a pastry chef in a real working context and will be able to transform the dough into cupcakes with the city's distinctive shapes, such as shoes, hats, rabbits or even our cogwheels. The process ends with a delicate dip in melted chocolate.
On the first Saturday of every month, the Parque do Rio Ul invites the general public to take part in the "Bread Cycle", a workshop that includes guided tours and the production of "cornbread", using the traditional methods used in the days when S. João da Madeira was a predominantly agricultural town.
Through this activity they can reuse paper that is no longer used and turn it into new sheets of recycled paper or into small souvenirs to give away. to give away. This way you protect trees and save water!
Given the growing concern about this group of living beings, whose diversity is decreasing at an overwhelming rate, and using natural natural elements collected in the park, we invite kids and adults to build a "mini" hotel for insects to take home. insects to take home and thus, with a simple gesture, conserve biodiversity. gesture, conserve local biodiversity and promote the beneficial insects in urban areas.
On this guided tour you will discover the origin of plants and learn how to identify the main species present in the Ul River Park. Once correctly identified, you will protect the Park with a control action and contribute to the protection of local biodiversity!