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[QUOTE="Wendy Werneth, post: 873271, member: 72106"] São João da Madeira really seems to be promoting its industrial heritage as a tourism attraction (in fairness, it doesn't have much else to promote). Right next to the hat museum is a shoe museum, as shoemaking became the next big industry here once people stopped wearing hats. In the same complex is the Oliva factory, famous for its sewing machines, but it also produced all kinds of other metallurgical products. The Oliva building is now a reception center for industrial tourism, where you can book tours of the local pencil factory, shoe factories and much more. And if you happen to pass through in July, check the dates of the annual hat festival at [URL="http://www.hatweekend.com"]www.hatweekend.com[/URL]. We were actually quite amazed by the complex machinery in the hat museum. It was like something out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but unfortunately without the chocolate. I never knew that making hats was so complicated! [/QUOTE]
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