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OPPOSITE
1a. 1b. Algarve. Landscape of cork oak trees.
Traditional cork extracting method
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2a. 2b. 2c. Made “In Loco”:
wood, wild herbs and liquor
3. Cork master teaching how
to carve a cork drinking spoon
I am not worried. True, IN LOCO is
host of local olive oil-based
now working in a broader economic cosmetics and adds “with our
environment. But it still carries local products and rural tourism
this spirit I felt when I came to the services, we have been able to attract
Sierra twenty years ago. Cultivating many Europeans from those centres of
tradition and preserving slow growth mass tourism at the seaside up to our
of the local economy and collective remote villages of the Algarve. We have
knowledge was and is the recipe. made Europe ‘in loco’.”
And this cork sculpture is a symbol of
“We have made
Europe ‘in loco.’"
‘In loco’ means ‘here in this place’,
that. Cork oaks are slow growers and and IN LOCO of which Artur is team and the IN LOCO movement
nowhere so deeply rooted in the local programme director was founded as celebrated their 30 year anniversary.
rural economy as here in the Algarve. a development organisation in 1988 in “This fair is a very emotional moment
Here cork is used not just for sealing this beautiful sierra, one of the most for us,” Artur says, “our local identity,
wine bottles, but also to insulate and remote and marginalised rural areas knowledge and traditions have proved
decorate homes. Artur points out a of Portugal. In September 2018, Artur´s to be solid and sustainable.”
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