Portuguese Maria Fernandes and Ecuadorian Jorge Ramirez met at international fairs. This craft store is one of the fruits of this relationship. South America’s passion for crafts and its roots is found in the wide range of products we offer our customers, ranging from pearls to semi-precious stones, from esoteric products such as traditional wind chimes and ethnic clothing to wool coats or Andean caps. But you don’t just find crafts in this store. Here you can also buy t-shirts from some of the most popular rock and metal bands.

Buttons, buttons and more buttons. The well-buttoned “Wasp” and parked outside the door is the ideal business card for a space where buttons are the main actors and storytellers. Each has a life of its own, a tale to tell, a unique experience and feel. Son and grandson of seamstresses and with the “pet” of mechanics, Rui Oliveira always coexisted with the buttons. It grew with them, but its process in the art of creation begins in jewelery, in the preciousness of filigree, where everything is worked by hand, meticulously. Creating a different concept coupled with a life course brought him back to the origins, the buttons and, with them, storytelling.

Open to the public since April 2015, Mercadinho dos Açores intends to offer the city of Porto an Azorean corner with the sensitivity and tenderness of the archipelago’s soul. Mercadinho has a grocery store of regional products for sale, such as São Miguel meat, Corvo cheese, Lava cakes, Santa Catarina tuna or Graciosa cheese, genuine and quality products, as they are certified by nature and with the guarantee of the Azores Mark seal, issued by SDEA – Society for the Business Development of the Azores. It also has a wine cellar with several brands of white and red wines and liqueur wines.