The village of PORCHES has two potteries, Porches Pottery and Olaria Pequena, producing their own hand-painted pieces.

LAGOA, a typical, small provincial town, is best-known for its winery, the most productive in the Algarve. Strong, rough and ready red and white table wines, and a little fortified wine as well, are produced from grapes grown in a wide radius around Lagoa. Visitors are welcome, by arrangement, to tour the adega, see something of the wine-making process and sample the end product.

Lagoa's banks and shops draw tourists but its not really a tourist town.