Feira de Artesanato de Braga

The Feira de Artesanato de Braga is a weekly crafts market held on Saturday mornings in Praça da República, the central square of Braga in Portugal's Minho region. Stalls sell regional handicrafts made in the Minho area — hand-thrown pottery, embroidered linens, wickerwork, and locally produced honey and olive oil — rather than imported souvenirs, so most goods here are genuinely made-in-region. The vendors are typically the makers themselves or their family businesses, which keeps the ratio of authentic craft to generic trinkets high compared to gift shops near the Bom Jesus sanctuary. Prices are usually marked and treated as fixed for food items like honey and olive oil, though light negotiation is sometimes possible on larger pottery or textile pieces; cash is the norm at these small stalls, cards are rarely accepted, and there is no tax-refund process at this open-air market. The setting is relaxed and local, with café terraces ringing the square offering coffee and pastries rather than a dedicated food section within the market itself. Stalls are arranged in rows around the square's perimeter, with pottery and textile vendors generally toward the church end and food producers clustered nearer the arcaded shops.