With only 8 square km, S. João da Madeira has a prominent role in the Portuguese business, having initially highlighted with a coat rack and dairy industry, S. Joao da Madeira became known later as the ‘Footwear Capital’.
The Industrial Tourism in this county assumes a tourism product of high economic value, cultural and recreational, where tourists have the opportunity to visit companies in activity, reviving activities of other times, visiting museums and museum spaces.
Possible companies and institutions to visit are: the only pencil factory in the country, Viarco; the leader of the manufacture of felt for hats, the Fepsa; footwear companies Helsare Everest; National Cortadoria of Hair; an old factory Museum of Millinery hats; Technological Center of Portugal footwear, and also the Vocational Training Centre of the Footwear Industry.
More information Property: www.turismoindustrial.cm-sjm.pt/