1 Hour 15 Minutes
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English, Portuguese
Visit a traditional cork factory and learn more about the processes involved in preparing and packing cork with your audio guide tour.
Next, visit a cork shop, where you can see some of the latest uses of cork in fashion accessories made of cork fabric.
Cork is the bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber L), a noble tree with very special characteristics that grows in Mediterranean regions such as Spain, Italy, France, Morocco, Algeria and, most particularly, in Portugal, where there are more than 720 thousand hectares of cork forests, as well as a cork industry of considerable economic importance.
It is an astonishing tree, very long-lived and with an enormous capacity for regeneration. It can live on average 150 to 200 years, despite its bark being stripped around 16 times during its lifetime, at nine-year intervals.
Cork – this vegetable tissue which is harvested with such care, has unique and incomparable qualities which no ingenious human has yet managed to imitate or improve:
Bookings for this Cork Factory Tour can be made from Monday to Friday at 11.30am.
We do not refund customer cancellations less than 24 hours prior to departure. For cancellations of customers with more than 24 hours before departure, we refund the amount in full.
This activity can be conditioned by the weather . We can, in case of bad weather , we cancel the trip by fully refunding the amount paid or rebooking the trip to another time.
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