As always, we went through every listing so you don’t have to. Here is everything worth knowing about the weekend, Friday to Sunday. Share it with friends and don’t stay home!
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A weekend for jazz, fado and classical music. On Friday, Festa do Jazz at CCB presents the trio of Julia Perminova, a pianist from Tyumen in Siberia who built her career in Paris clubs; on Saturday Marco Rodrigues sings Carlos do Carmo; in Porto there is Rachmaninoff at Casa da Música, and in Faro the São Carlos orchestra plays “Scheherazade”. Rock and contemporary music fans have very little to choose from: the only notable shows are Dublin post-punk band Gurriers and American rappers Fly Anakin and Quelle Chris, plus Max Cooper’s audiovisual concert in Porto.
Lisbon and around
Festa do Jazz
📅 6 November, 21:30 and 22:45 (CCB); 7 and 8 November, 21:00 (Teatro da Comuna)
📍 CCB, Pequeno Auditório, Belém; Teatro da Comuna, Praça de Espanha
💸 €20 per concert, both concerts on 6 November €30: Julia Perminova Trio, Luís Vicente Trio; for 7 and 8 November, tickets at the Teatro da Comuna box office
Portugal’s annual jazz showcase is in its 24th edition: jazz school orchestras play during the day, professional bands in the evening. On Friday at CCB, the trio of pianist Julia Perminova, a graduate of Moscow’s Gnessin Academy who plays the Paris club circuit, shares the bill with the trio of trumpeter Luís Vicente, a key figure on Lisbon’s free improvisation scene. On Saturday and Sunday, Teatro da Comuna hosts Jazzopa, the Ensemble Festa do Jazz and Mário Franco’s quintet.
Vibraphonist Duarte Ventura’s nonet Reperio at Festa do Jazz 2024, Centro Cultural de Belém.
Marco Rodrigues Sings Carlos do Carmo
📅 7 November, 19:00
📍 CCB, Grande Auditório, Belém
💸 €5–25
Carlos do Carmo (1939–2021) was one of the first fadistas to take Lisbon fado onto big stages with an orchestra; his “Lisboa, Menina e Moça” is considered the city’s unofficial anthem. Marco Rodrigues started out in the fado houses of Alfama. The programme includes songs from his album “Canta Carlos do Carmo” and his own “Tempo” and “A Minha Casa”. The concert lasts about an hour, seating is numbered, and balcony tickets cost €5.
Fly Anakin & Quelle Chris
📅 7 November, 21:30
📍 Collect, LX Factory, Alcântara
💸 €25–32
Two rappers from the American independent scene on one bill. Richmond’s Fly Anakin delivers dense verses over lo-fi beats; his album “Frank” (2022) made many year-end lists. Detroit’s Quelle Chris is a producer and rapper with a wry, absurdist streak, known for his joint records with Jean Grae.
Gurriers
📅 6 November (Lisbon); 7 November (Porto)
📍 Casa Capitão, Lisbon; M.Ou.Co, Porto
💸 €23
A post-punk band from Dublin: loud guitars, spoken-shouted vocals and lyrics about life in an expensive city. Their sound is close to Fontaines D.C. and IDLES. In Lisbon they play Casa Capitão, a room on the top floor of a former riverside warehouse, and the next day M.Ou.Co in Porto.
Coelho Radioactivo, “ANTI-ONTEM” + Nuno Loureiro
📅 6 November, 22:00
📍 Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB), Bairro Alto
💸 €11
Coelho Radioactivo (“Radioactive Rabbit”) is the solo project of João Sarnadas from Aveiro, guitarist of José Pinhal Post-Mortem Experience: songs in Portuguese somewhere between singer-songwriter, folk and indie rock. At ZDB he presents his new album “ANTI-ONTEM” (“Anti-Yesterday”), released on 27 October. Nuno Loureiro, an electronic musician and producer from Porto, opens. ZDB is a non-profit arts centre in Bairro Alto and one of the city’s main venues for independent music.
José Pinhal Post-Mortem Experience: Farewell Concert
📅 7 November, 22:00
📍 Coliseu dos Recreios, Baixa
💸 €18–30
José Pinhal recorded romantic songs on cassettes sold at markets in northern Portugal and died almost unknown in 1993. More than twenty years later, a group of Porto musicians began playing his songs with a full band and built a large following. Now the project is ending: after the Coliseu shows in Porto and Lisbon, there will be no more. The band’s guitarist plays his own music at ZDB the night before (see above).
Porto and around
Canções de Granito: 25 Years Since Porto Was European Capital of Culture
📅 6 November, 21:00
📍 Coliseu Porto Ageas, Porto
💸 €10–25
A concert marking 25 years since Porto was European Capital of Culture. On stage: singer-songwriter Pedro Abrunhosa, Rui Reininho’s rock band GNR (known for the hit “Dunas”), 1990s art-pop group Três Tristes Tigres and pianist Pedro Burmester. In one evening you hear the musicians tied to the city’s last forty years. Tickets from €10.
Max Cooper, “Feeling Is Structure”
📅 6 November, 21:00
📍 Hard Club, Mercado Ferreira Borges
💸 €28
The Northern Irish producer with a PhD in genetics makes audiovisual concerts: melodic techno and ambient set to scientific visuals, from fractals to cell structures. “Feeling Is Structure” is his new show. This is a concert people watch and listen to more than dance to.
A Terceira de Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninoff’s Third)
📅 7 November, 18:00
📍 Casa da Música, Boavista
💸 €26–30
The Porto Symphony Orchestra under Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova plays Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony, written in emigration. The first half is Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3”, Bach’s forms set to Brazilian rhythms, with pianist Leo de Maria as soloist.
Yotto (Misty Fest)
📅 7 November, 21:00 (Porto); 6 November (Lisbon, LAV)
📍 Casa da Música, Boavista
💸 €30
A Finnish producer of melodic house who releases on the Anjunadeep label. His tracks unfold slowly and work both for listening seated and for dancing. At Casa da Música he plays a live set as part of Misty Fest, the November festival of intimate concerts in Lisbon and Porto; the night before he plays LAV in Lisbon.
Ana Lua Caiano, “Devagar Que A Vida É Curta”
📅 6 November, 21:30
📍 gnration, Blackbox, Braga
💸 €15
The Lisbon singer runs Portuguese folk melodies, tambourines and choral singing through loops and synthesisers. Her debut album “Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado” (2024) was noticed well beyond Portugal. Her second, “Devagar Que A Vida É Curta” (“Slow Down, Life Is Short”), is out on the German label Glitterbeat, and the Braga show opens her tour. The new songs bring in more piano, brass and vocal harmonies.
Beyond the big cities
“Mil e uma Noites” (“One Thousand and One Nights”), Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
📅 7 November, 18:30
📍 Teatro das Figuras, Faro
💸 €15
The orchestra of Lisbon’s São Carlos opera house, conducted by Antonio Pirolli, plays three 19th-century works: Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” overture, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio espagnol” with its solos for clarinet, violin, flute and harp, and his symphonic suite “Scheherazade”. The concert lasts 70 minutes.
Buba Espinho with the Olhão Conservatory
📅 7 November, 21:30
📍 Auditório Municipal de Olhão, Olhão
💸 Tickets at the box office
Buba Espinho is a singer from the Alentejo who grew up on cante alentejano (male choral singing on UNESCO’s list of intangible heritage) and performs it in modern pop arrangements. In Olhão he sings a programme created for the municipality’s 200th anniversary, with a string ensemble and choir from the local conservatory.
Coimbra em Blues: Guadalupe Plata + Ruby Ann
📅 6 November, 21:30
📍 TAGV, Coimbra
💸 Tickets; festival pass €25
Guadalupe Plata are a duo from Úbeda in Andalusia: Pedro de Dios (guitar, vocals) and Carlos Jimena (drums). For twenty years they have played dark Delta-style blues mixed with rock’n’roll, psychedelia and flamenco. Portuguese singer Ruby Ann premieres a programme dedicated to Ruth Brown, one of the defining rhythm-and-blues singers of the 1950s, commissioned by the festival. Two hours without an interval at Coimbra’s university theatre. 12+.
Dias do Jazz: TGB + João Barradas
📅 6 November, 21:30
📍 CCC, Caldas da Rainha
💸 €15, students and 65+ €12.50
TGB is a trio without a bass player: Sérgio Carolino on tuba, Mário Delgado on guitar and Alexandre Frazão on drums, all three regulars of Portuguese jazz festivals. They are joined by accordionist João Barradas, who plays contemporary jazz on his instrument.
Orquestra Clássica da Madeira: Misha Katz and Dmitry Demyashkin
📅 7 November, 18:00
📍 Centro de Congressos da Madeira, Funchal
💸 €25
Founded in 1964, the Madeira Classical Orchestra is one of the oldest in the country. It performs with conductor Misha Katz, a student of Rostropovich who has worked in France for many years, and pianist Dmitry Demyashkin. The concert at Funchal’s Congress Centre lasts an hour and a half with an interval.
Dance
The big night is Saturday: Príncipe Discos, the label that took the music of Lisbon’s suburbs to clubs in Berlin and New York, takes over Ministerium on Praça do Comércio for the first time. On Friday, choose between Carpet’s birthday with Berlin’s DJ Dustin at the small Rūmu and Lux on the riverside. On Saturday you can get into Superlativo at Village Underground and Gare in Porto for free.
Lisbon and around
Noite Príncipe
📅 7 November, 23:59–07:00
📍 Ministerium Club, Praça do Comércio
💸 €15
Since the 2010s, Príncipe Discos has released batida, kuduro and Afro-house made by young musicians from Angolan and Cape Verdean families in Lisbon’s suburbs; this music now plays in clubs across Europe and the US. For the first time the label hosts a night at Ministerium, a club in the basement of a government ministry on Praça do Comércio. Playing: DJ Marfox, DJ Narciso, Nídia, Deejay Veiga and guest DJ K from São Paulo. 18+.
The dance floor at Ministerium Club, Praça do Comércio.
Lux Frágil: Pancratio, Rui Vargas, Nicolle Velcro
📅 6 November, 23:00–06:00
📍 Lux Frágil, Santa Apolónia
💸 Tickets on DICE
Lux is the riverside club by Santa Apolónia station, with a rooftop terrace overlooking the Tagus. On Friday the main room has house producer Pancratio, Nicolle Velcro and Rui Vargas, a Lux resident since the club opened in 1998. Upstairs in the bar, Skyrager and Mário Valente play Balearic and disco. On Saturday Lux hosts Quest, Space Riders, Anya and NVNO (RA).
Carpet: 12 Years, DJ Dustin (Giegling)
📅 6 November, 22:00–04:00
📍 Rūmu, Rua Nova da Trindade 5G, Chiado
💸 from €10
Carpet & Snares started as a record shop and over twelve years became a label and a party series. For the birthday, DJ Dustin flies in from Berlin: co-founder of the Giegling label, he has played Panorama Bar and Amsterdam’s De School, with deep house, broken beats and atmospheric techno. Also playing: Jorge Caiado b2b Velvet Velour and Bernardo Vaz b2b Kristina. A small room and vinyl-only sets.
Basement Love x Toy Tonics
📅 6 November, 22:00–06:00
📍 Those Who Dance, Av. Infante D. Henrique, armazéns 8–9
💸 €15
Toy Tonics is a Berlin disco-house label whose artists are often both musicians and DJs and play with live instruments. At Basement Love, label artists Bárbara Boeing and ALOT play alongside Lisbon’s Tiago Oudman and Afonso. The venue is a riverside warehouse in Marvila. 18+.
Superlativo: Gustavo’s Birthday (50-1)
📅 7 November, 23:59–06:00
📍 Village Underground Lisboa, Alcântara
💸 Free
Village Underground is a club built from shipping containers and old double-decker buses under the 25 de Abril bridge. The venue’s co-founder Gustavo Rodrigues celebrates his birthday with a free party: Stereo Addiction (Gustavo & John-E), Fernandes and Chinalight.
Porto and around
Day & Night: KokÖlò x POWER with nd_baumecker
📅 7 November, 15:00–06:00
📍 Oneonefive., Porto
💸 €15
Andreas Baumecker (nd_baumecker) was a resident at Berlin’s Panorama Bar for many years and released on Ostgut Ton. He is known for long sets mixing disco, house and techno. He is hosted by Porto collectives KokÖlò and POWER; the party starts in the afternoon and runs until morning.
Gare Porto: Free Saturday
📅 7 November
📍 Gare Porto, under São Bento station
💸 Free
Gare is a techno club in old warehouses along the tracks of São Bento station, the main techno venue in Porto. On Saturday entry is free, with Flørist, André Cascais and Mimi. Friday night with Alarico is sold out.
See
The main event of the weekend is Lisbon Art Weekend: 53 galleries and studios open for free, including ones you can’t usually get into. LEFFEST starts at the same time, with David Cronenberg heading the jury; this weekend Fanny Ardant, Kelly Reichardt and Fernando Trueba come to present their films. In Porto, the Serralves museum hands its galleries over to performance for two days, and the park hosts the last evenings of its light show.
Lisbon and around
Lisbon Art Weekend
📅 5–8 November
📍 Galleries, museums, studios and private collections across Lisbon, map and programme
💸 Free
The eighth Art Weekend brings together 53 galleries and eight museums, with around 95 free events, including open studios and private collections that are usually closed to the public. Most artist talks are in Portuguese, so it makes sense to plan your route around exhibitions and openings. What to see:
drawings by Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), the Austrian painter who received the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, at Jahn und Jahn;
new sculpture by José Pedro Croft, who represented Portugal in Venice in 2017, opening at Galeria Miguel Nabinho on Friday at 22:00;
“El Pez Que Fuma” by Venezuelan painter Juan Araujo, who repaints photographs of modernist architecture in oil, at Cristina Guerra;
Ângela Ferreira’s “Here I Stand”, on architecture and colonial history, at MAC/CCB;
kinetic sculpture by Brazilian artist Artur Lescher at KUBIKGALLERY;
the last day of Brazilian artist Yuli Yamagata’s show at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Saturday 15:00–19:00;
an opening by Pantónio, the muralist from the Azores, at Underdogs on Friday at 19:00.
Free guided tours in English by TYKHE cover Marvila on Saturday and Estrela on Sunday; times and booking are in the ArtRabbit programme.
Visitors at an exhibition during a previous edition of Lisbon Art Weekend.
LEFFEST 2026 (Lisbon Film Festival)
📅 6–14 November
📍 Cinema São Jorge, Medeia Nimas, Culturgest, NOS Vasco da Gama
💸 €6–10: São Jorge; Culturgest tickets on Ticketline, Nimas and Vasco da Gama on ActiveTicket
Producer Paulo Branco’s festival shows films from Cannes, Venice and Berlin and brings their directors; David Cronenberg heads the jury. Friday at 19:00 is the opening with James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” (Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson). On Saturday at 21:30 Fanny Ardant presents her film at Nimas, and on Sunday at 21:30, at the same cinema, Kelly Reichardt screens “Wendy & Lucy”. Full schedule in the festival programme.
ZDB: Three Exhibitions in One Evening
📅 opening 7 November, 16:00
📍 Galeria Zé dos Bois, Bairro Alto
💸 €3
ZDB opens three exhibitions: Cristina Lamas’s “Sahara Malaise”, British sound artist Kathy Hinde’s “Magnetic Resonance”, a sound installation in which you can hear a magnetic field, and Inês Raposo’s “NEW MANUAL” in the ZDB bookshop. The opening comes with a bar and draws the local art crowd.
Gulbenkian: “Lugares que se desenham” and the Last Day of “Zarmanazan”
📅 opening 7 November, curators’ tour at 18:00; “Zarmanazan” until 8 November
📍 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Avenidas Novas
💸 Exhibition €6; curators’ tour free, tickets handed out two hours before on the day, maximum two per person
On Saturday the exhibition “Lugares que se desenham” (“Places That Draw Themselves”) opens, on how artists depict space in drawing; it runs until the end of March. On opening day, curators Leonor Nazaré and Sérgio Mah lead a tour. On Sunday the week-long exhibition “Zarmanazan” closes. Next to the museum, the foundation’s garden is changing colour in early November.
World Press Cartoon 2026
📅 until 23 January
📍 Palácio Anjos, Algés (Oeiras)
💸 €6–12
The exhibition of the international press cartoon competition: the year’s best work from publications around the world, mostly political. A change from looking at Hitler moustaches drawn onto posters of André Ventura (leader of the far-right Chega party). Palácio Anjos stands in a park by Algés station; on Sunday the same park hosts a free magusto (see “Eat & Drink”).
Porto and around
O Museu como Performance (The Museum as Performance)
📅 7–8 November, from 11:00
📍 Museu de Serralves, Porto
💸 €15 residents, €19 others, 25% off for both days; programme
Once a year, Serralves gives its galleries over to dance, music and sound for two days. Participants include Swiss choreographer Ruth Childs, Ivan Cheng, Joana Sá and Nasa4nasa. On Sunday at 18:10 Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten presents “Six Moving Guitars”: six guitars move around the room and sound at once. The hour-by-hour schedule will be published closer to the weekend; there is a family workshop on Saturday (see “With Kids”).
Queer Porto 12: Closing Day
📅 7 November; free screening at 18:00
📍 Casa Comum, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira; main screenings at Batalha Centro de Cinema
💸 Programme
Porto’s twelfth queer film festival showed 37 films over five days. On Saturday the winners are announced and the closing film is screened: the Mexican documentary “Seis Meses en el Edificio Rosa con Azul” (“Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building”). At the university’s Casa Comum there are free films about writers: Paul Bowles, Mary Oliver, McKenzie Wark.
Serralves em Luz: Final Evenings
📅 until 8 November, from 20:00
📍 Parque de Serralves, Porto
💸 €11–15
An evening route of about two kilometres through the Serralves park: twenty light installations, each with its own soundtrack. The show has run since July and this is its last weekend. Adults €15, concessions €12, family tickets €11 per person, children under three free.
Isabél Zuaa: “AFRO SAL.OYÁ”
📅 6 and 7 November, 19:30
📍 Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli, Porto
💸 €9
Isabél Zuaa is a Portuguese actress of Angolan and Guinean descent, known for the Brazilian film “Good Manners”. She calls “AFRO SAL.OYÁ” a pop ritual: a concert-performance of songs, dance and invocations of Oyá, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of winds and storms. Very exotic, but useful for understanding the culture of the Angolan diaspora, which is a big part of life here.
Beyond the big cities
Pedra Dura — Algarve Dance Festival
📅 4–14 November; exhibitions until 30 December, Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00
📍 Centro Cultural de Lagos and other venues in Lagos
💸 Exhibitions free; festival programme
The fifth contemporary dance festival in Lagos: 24 performances plus concerts, film and installations. The Cultural Centre shows Belgian artist Ruben Bellinkx’s “Roommates”, two video works about bodies and objects, and an exhibition from the Algarve Dance Documentation Centre. On Saturday at 21:30 the same venue stages choreographer Clara Andermatt’s “O Cansaço dos Santos” (“The Weariness of Saints”).
Eat & Drink
November is magusto season, the festival of roast chestnuts and new wine around St Martin’s Day. Oeiras hands out chestnuts for free, Portimão opens a fair that is more than 360 years old, and the mountain villages of Beira celebrate the rural way. In Lisbon, Essência do Vinho brings three thousand wines and a vertical of ports going back to 1931.
Lisbon and around
Essência do Vinho Lisboa 2026
📅 7 and 8 November, 15:00–21:00
📍 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Junqueira (Alcântara)
💸 €22, early entry on Sunday €18
The wine fair of Revista de Vinhos magazine: more than 300 producers and around 3,000 wines from every region of the country, from Vinho Verde to Madeira. Your ticket comes with an official glass, which you can take to any producer’s stand to taste. Separate guided tastings with experts cost €25–50, including a vertical of Krohn ports from 1931 to 2022. The Mundo Natural area gathers natural and organic wines.
Festa de São Martinho in Oeiras: Magusto
📅 7 November (central Oeiras); 8 November (Algés); 11:00–22:00
📍 Largo 5 de Outubro, Oeiras; Parque Anjos, Algés
💸 Free
Every year the Oeiras municipality throws a magusto with free chestnuts, local Villa Oeiras wine and live music. On Saturday it takes place in Oeiras’s historic centre, on Sunday in the park by Palácio Anjos in Algés, where World Press Cartoon is on (see “See”). A third magusto follows on 11 November at the Barcarena gunpowder factory.
Roasted chestnuts.
Mushroom Festival: Festival Day
📅 8 November, from 10:00 until evening
📍 Tejá House, Cais do Sodré
💸 €9–55
A day about mushrooms in science, food and ecology: a market, talks on functional mushrooms and the research on psychedelics, workshops on spore prints and mycelium, and a mushroom dinner at 19:00. Entry €9, full programme with dinner €55, children under 12 free. The Sintra forest walk has been moved to 14 November. As of the morning of 5 November, tickets were not yet on sale.
Open Wineries and Magusto on the Setúbal Peninsula
📅 8 November
📍 Casa Ermelinda Freitas, Palmela; Quinta de Catralvos, Azeitão
💸 Casa Ermelinda Freitas: €7 including a bottle of wine; Quinta de Catralvos: magusto
The Setúbal Peninsula wine route runs winery visits. On Sunday at 10:00, Casa Ermelinda Freitas, a family estate known for wines from the local Castelão grape, offers a tour, a tasting and a bottle to take home for €7. From 12:00 to 19:00, Quinta de Catralvos in Azeitão holds a magusto at the winery.
Beyond the big cities
363rd Feira de São Martinho in Portimão
📅 6–15 November; opens 6 November at 16:00
📍 Parque de Feiras e Exposições de Portimão
💸 Free entry
Portimão has held this fair since 1662. There are rides, market stalls, a car show at Portimão Arena and tasquinhas (fair food stalls) selling roast chestnuts, farturas (fried dough sticks), chouriço bread, sweet potatoes and grilled octopus. The fair is open until 1am; 15 November is family day, with discounts on rides.
Chestnuts in Beira: Festa da Castanha e da Jeropiga and Feira dos Santos
📅 7–8 November
📍 Famalicão da Serra (Guarda); Largo Doutor Couto, Mangualde
💸 Free: Famalicão da Serra, Mangualde
In the mountains of Beira, the chestnut is a mainstay of autumn cooking and the local economy. Famalicão da Serra, near Guarda, holds its twentieth festival of chestnuts and jeropiga (a sweet fortified wine made from grape must and brandy), with local basket weaving on show. In Mangualde, the November Feira dos Santos runs from 8:00 until late, with crafts, regional produce and food.
Get Active
On Sunday there’s the Porto marathon, a half marathon along the ocean from Estoril to Belém and a cross-border race into Spain in the south. If you’re not running, mind the closed waterfronts and head for the mountains: the beech forest in Manteigas is at its peak colour.
Lisbon and around
Meia Maratona da Marginal (Marginal Half Marathon)
📅 8 November, start 9:15
📍 Start at Casino Estoril, finish at Praça do Império, Belém
💸 €40, registration until 6 November
21 kilometres along the Marginal coast road from Estoril through Oeiras and Paço de Arcos to Belém. The course is almost flat and runs along the water the whole way. The race pack includes a T-shirt, bib, medal and water. The Marginal will be closed on Sunday morning.
Hikes in Sintra and Arrábida
📅 7–8 November, mornings
📍 Serra de Sintra and Arrábida
💸 “Lost Aqueduct”: €10, booking
On Saturday at 9:30 a route runs from the Rio da Mula dam to the village of Penedo; on Sunday at 9:30 a group goes looking for the “lost aqueduct” in the Serra de Sintra (book by 16:30 on Saturday). At the same time there’s a walk with yoga by the Peninha sanctuary, and at 9:50 a visit to the Arrábida convent, which is closed on ordinary days.
Porto and around
Maratona do Porto 2026 (Porto Marathon)
📅 8 November, 8:00; expo and bib collection 6–7 November, 10:00–19:00
📍 Start at SEA LIFE Porto, finish at Queimódromo; expo at Alfândega do Porto
💸 €100 / €25 / €15, registration at the expo only (terms)
The course runs along the ocean from Matosinhos, along the Ribeira waterfront, across the bridge to Gaia and back. The same day there’s a 10 km race and a 6 km walk open to everyone. Online registration has closed, but you can still sign up at the Alfândega expo: marathon €100, 10 km €25, walk €15. On Sunday morning the Ribeira, Foz and Matosinhos waterfronts are closed.
The start of the Porto Marathon in 2024.
Beyond the big cities
X Milhas do Guadiana: Running from Portugal to Spain
📅 8 November, morning; kids’ race at 10:15
📍 Start at Praça Marquês de Pombal, Vila Real de Santo António; finish at Plaza de la Ribera, Ayamonte (Spain)
💸 Registration until 5 November
The 31st edition of this ten-mile (16.09 km) race between two countries: runners cross the international bridge over the Guadiana and finish in Ayamonte, Spain. The field is capped at 1,000. Bibs are handed out on race day from 8:30 to 9:30 in the square. A kids’ race for children born 2016–2021 starts at 10:15. Spain is an hour ahead.
Rota das Faias (Beech Trail), Serra da Estrela
📅 8 November, 12:00
📍 Cruz das Jugadas car park, Manteigas
💸 €15, children from 6 €10
On the São Lourenço slope above Manteigas grows one of the largest beech forests on the Iberian Peninsula, yellow and red in early November. The Montanhas Dentro club takes groups of 8 to 20: lunch with feijoca (a local bean stew) at 12:00, then at 14:00 a 6.3 km route with 361 metres of climbing, and sunset around 17:15. Lunch and transport are paid separately.
With Kids
The Gulbenkian runs a family weekend: an “Art by Recipe” workshop on Saturday, and on Sunday a free art zone and building nest boxes for tits in the garden. Also free: the maths fair at MUHNAC and a skateboarding day in São João do Estoril. In Porto, Serralves invites families to make short films with optical tricks on Saturday, and Casa da Música has a Sunday-morning music programme for little ones.
Lisbon and around
Feira da Matemática (Maths Fair)
📅 7 November
📍 MUHNAC, Príncipe Real
💸 Free
For one day, the Museum of Natural History and Science fills up with maths puzzles, games, optical illusions and problems solved with your hands. On Friday the fair is for schools; on Saturday it’s open to everyone.
Puzzles at a previous edition of Feira da Matemática.
Gulbenkian for Families: “Arte por receita”, ZAF and Nest Boxes
📅 7 November, 15:00; 8 November, from 10:00
📍 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Avenidas Novas
💸 “Arte por receita” and nest boxes €11.50–19.50; ZAF free
On Saturday at 15:00, the “Arte por receita” (“Art by Recipe”) workshop has kids make artwork by following instructions, like a recipe. On Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 17:30, the ZAF family art zone is open, free and without booking. From 10:30 to 12:30, families build nest boxes for tits in the garden, which will then be hung on the park’s trees.
PdG Bowl Jam (Skate Jam)
📅 7 November, 10:00–21:00
📍 Parque das Gerações, São João do Estoril
💸 Free
Cascais municipality celebrates the renovation of the Parque das Gerações skate park on the Estoril seafront with a day of skateboarding in its bowl. Local riders skate all day, and younger kids can have a go themselves. No Portuguese needed.
Porto and around
Serralves: Family Workshop “Cinema-Mentira: Perna Curta”
📅 7 November, 15:00
📍 Museu de Serralves
💸 Adults €12–15, children under 12 free, booking
A family workshop during “The Museum as Performance” weekend: kids and parents invent and shoot short films with optical tricks, “lie-cinema”. Children under 12 go free, adults pay €12–15. In the evening, Serralves em Luz is on in the park (see “See”).
Estação Casa da Música
📅 8 November, 10:00 and 11:30
📍 Casa da Música, Boavista
💸 €12.50
A Sunday-morning music programme for young children at Casa da Música, a first introduction to the concert hall in Rem Koolhaas’s building. Music is the language here, so it works for families who don’t speak Portuguese.
What Else
A quiet week in this section. In Cascais you can hear the screenwriters of “Band of Brothers” and “City of Angels” for free, on Saturday Selva Comedy Cafe hosts an English stand-up show about life in Lisbon, and in Porto there’s a networking night for newcomers. Out of town, Golegã opens its 50th national horse fair.
Lisbon and around
Open Cities Accelerator: Erik Jendresen and Dana Stevens
📅 6 November, 18:00
📍 Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais
💸 Free, register by email at info@open-cities.com (page)
“Where the Story Begins”, a conversation with two Hollywood screenwriters. Erik Jendresen wrote “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”, Dana Stevens wrote “City of Angels”. They will talk about how an idea becomes a screenplay. In English, at the Paula Rego museum, the building with the red pyramid towers.
Life in Lisboa: English Stand-Up Comedy
📅 7 November, doors 20:30, show 21:00–22:30
📍 Selva Comedy Cafe, Rua Luís de Camões 112A, Alcântara
💸 €15 online, €20 at the door
Four or five local and international comedians do an hour and a half of stand-up in English about living in, visiting and loving Lisbon: dating, landlords and rental contracts, and the local habits that take years to get used to. Food and drinks are served. Recommended for 15+.
Porto and around
Porto, You’re Invited! and Fuckup Nights
📅 6 November, 19:00
📍 Matriarca and Temporada Social Club, Porto
💸 “Porto, You’re Invited!” €40; Fuckup Nights — details
Two evenings for people new to the city. “Porto, You’re Invited!” is a networking party for newcomers and expats from 19:00 until 1am; the Party Pass is €40, dinner tickets are sold out. At Fuckup Nights, entrepreneurs talk about their failures and what they learned from them.
Beyond the big cities
50th Feira Nacional do Cavalo (National Horse Fair)
📅 6–15 November
📍 Arneiro da Feira, Golegã
💸 Free entry
Golegã, a small town in the Ribatejo, hosts the country’s main horse fair every November: Lusitano breeders, riders in traditional dress, horse-drawn carriages, roast chestnuts and água-pé (a light wine made from grape pomace). Friday has show jumping and carriage driving, Sunday is Dia do Campino, the day of the Ribatejo’s cattle herders. The main ceremonies are on 11 and 12 November. Above all, it’s a beautiful sight.
Riders in traditional dress in the arena at the National Horse Fair in Golegã.
Weekday Highlights
Web Summit starts in Lisbon on Monday, so avoid Parque das Nações for four days. Concerts worth noting this week: Arlo Parks at LAV and Rodrigo Cuevas in Porto.
Web Summit 2026
📅 9–12 November
📍 MEO Arena, Parque das Nações
💸 Tickets and programme
The big tech conference held in Lisbon every November. Announced speakers include Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince, You.com founder Richard Socher, Replit president Michele Catasta and Li Chen, co-founder of robotics company Unitree. In the evenings, attendees head to Night Summit in the city’s bars and clubs, and themed meetups run during the day. For mere mortals, Parque das Nações becomes hell these days: monstrous traffic jams, fences and barriers, and very different taxi prices.
Rodrigo Cuevas, “La Belleza”
📅 10 November, 21:30
📍 Casa da Música, Sala 2, Boavista, Porto
💸 €25
Asturian artist Rodrigo Cuevas works where a concert, theatre and a village fiesta meet: he sings traditional songs from northern Spain with electronics, humour and a touch of cabaret. In Porto he brings “La Belleza” (“Beauty”), based on his album “Manual de Belleza”. The concert is part of Misty Fest. Like Ana Lua Caiano (see “Listen”), he works with his country’s folk tradition.
Arlo Parks, “Ambiguous Desire”
📅 11 November, doors 20:00
📍 Lisboa ao Vivo (LAV), Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa 29, Marvila
💸 €40
The British singer and poet won the Mercury Prize and a BRIT Award for her debut album. She sings soft soul and indie pop with personal lyrics about anxiety, friendship and love. In Lisbon she presents her third album, “Ambiguous Desire”. LAV is a concert hall in a former warehouse in Marvila.
