Francisco de Calheiros

Honorary Consul of Slovenia in Porto
IGCAT Ambassador in Minho, European Region of Gastronomy 2016

Francisco de Calheiros is the head of the ancient Calheiros Family and is responsible for the preservation of their historical House – the Manor Paço de Calheiros. Over the past thirty years, he has devoted himself to an exhaustive work of rehabilitating the old property with the aim of protecting the Family’s patrimonial and intangible heritage, by recovering and adjusting the Manor to Tourism and reinstating the most traditional agricultural productions associated with it. He promoted the creation and became Director of the International Festival of Gardens of Ponte de Lima – inspired by the International Festival of Gardens of Chaumont-sur-Loire –, is President of the Golf Club of Ponte de Lima, of the ADRIL-Association for Integrated Rural Development of Vale do Lima (responsible for the LEADER program), of TURIHAB – Housing Tourism – and, also, of the Association of Friends of the Portuguese Way of Saint Jacques de Compostela.

Francisco de Calheiros is an IGCAT Ambassador (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism) since 2016.

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