Mother's Day Gift Sets

Gently cleansing and luxuriously fragrancing the skin, each soap is manually stamped with a portuguese motif and hand-wrapped to ensure the highest quality and perfection. 

Soap wrapped in paper decorated with a satin ribbon and a small ceramic tile. Each wrapper replicates a traditional portuguese tile. 

Available Gift Sets:

- Olive Leaf & Green Tea and Cilantro & Lime

- Orange & Almond and Ginger & Orchid

- Lavender & Chamomile and Rhubarb & Cassis 

Weight: 2 x 200g / 2 x 7 oz

Made in Portugal

A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues that define Portugal’s countryside, coast, small towns, and cosmopolitan cities.

This collection features over 200 stunning photographs that illustrate the ways that color and pattern are woven into the very fabric of the country’s culture, history, architecture, and traditions. Each section features insightful essays that explore the artistry of azulejos, the colorful ceramic tiles covering much of Portugal’s architecture; the intricately embroidered details of traditional lavradeira costumes; the rich flavors of Portuguese cuisine, and so much more.

Throughout these vibrant pages, you’ll discover the vivid stories behind each color and pattern, transporting you to the gorgeous fields of Alentejo, the sparkling waters of the Algarve, the busy streets of Lisbon, the lush valleys of the Douro, and beyond.

Portus Cale soaps are the result of a careful ingredient selection that includes a 100% vegetable base and high-quality fragrances made in Europe, which last throughout the entire product life. Carefully hand stamped and hand wrapped, and with a careful design, Portus Cale soaps truly are an affordable luxury.

Weight: 3 x 150g

Made in Portugal

The first glass producing factory – A Real Fábrica de Vidros da Marinha Grande – was established by the Marquis of Pombal in 1769. Since then many factories have maintained the regions secular tradition. They produce high quality mouth blown glass.

The Depósito da Marinha Grande, with their vast variety of products, keeps up their tradition, introducing innovative techniques in the production of this sustainable, yet noble product.

Material: Mouth Blown Glassware

Dimensions: Height 18.5 cm, Diameter 5.5 cm

Made in Portugal

Necklace with Heart of Viana on the back, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Zodiac Collection honouring Portuguese historical women.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 3.5gr.

Size of pendant of 2.0cm.

Handmade in Portugal

Inspired by Portuguese Tiles, Portus Cale Gold & Blue, the first ceramic home fragrance collection by Castelbel, is the perfect addition to any home or office.

Composed of three individual 70g aromatic candles that are displayed in delicate ceramic containers decorated with three different and exquisite tile patterns, this is the perfect choice for a show-stopping gift or for your own personal use. Either at your dinner table or in smaller spaces, everyone will love the delicacy of this fresh floral scent.

Scents: Pink Pepper and Jasmine; 3 x 70g / 2.4oz
Displayed in Delicate Ceramic Containers
Inspired by the ancient Portuguese Tile Art
Presented in a Beautiful Gift Box 

Made in Portugal

Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.

Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort.

Heart of Viana necklace in filigree in Gold Plated Silver, part of The Classics Collection.

The Heart of Viana was created as a symbol of devotion to the Sacred Heart but soon became an icon and emotional heritage of Portugal.

For those who own it the Heart of Viana is a symbol of honest and generosity.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 45cm and 4.6gr.

Three Sizes of Heart of Viana pendant (excluding the loop):

1.  1.5 cm and 1.5gr

2. 3cm and 2.8gr

3. 3.5cm and 4.6gr

Handmade in Portugal

Necklace with pendant in filigree, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Portuguese Icons Collection.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40 cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 1.5gr.

Size of pendant of 2cm.

Handmade in Portugal

Anthony De Sa's novel of rare evocative power that captures the space between innocence and knowing--for a city, for a community and most especially for a trio of unforgettable boys.

     On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy's body was discovered. He had been brutally raped and murdered, and Toronto the Good would never be the same. The murder of the Shoeshine Boy had particularly tragic resonance for the city's Portuguese community. The loss of one of their own symbolized for many how far they were from realizing their immigrant dreams.
     Kicking the Sky is told from the perspective of one of these children, Antonio Rebelo, a character first introduced in Barnacle Love. Twelve-year-old Antonio prizes his life of freedom and adventure. He and his best friends, Manny and Ricky, spend their days on their bikes exploring the labyrinth of laneways that link their Portuguese neighborhood to the rest of the city. But as the details of Emanuel's death expose Toronto's seedier underbelly, the boys are pulled into an adult world of danger and cruelty, secrets and lies much closer to home.
     Kicking the Sky is a novel driven by dramatic events, taking hold of readers from its opening pages, intensifying its force towards an ending of huge emotional impact.

Paperback Edition

Brush up on your Portuguese language skills in 3 months! 

Whether you’re visiting Portugal or simply want to improve your Portuguese vocabulary and grammar, this practical language learning course is packed with learning tips and an audio app that makes learning fun!

Inside this Portuguese language book, you’ll find:

   • “Imitated pronunciation” sections that make unfamiliar Portuguese sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Portuguese

Paperback

Necklace with pendant in filigree, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Portuguese Icons Collection.

The young women from Viana do Castelo had the ambition to own a necklace full of Viana’s ‘Conta’ at a time, with the money they raised from selling eggs and chickens.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40 cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 1.5gr.

Size of pendant of 10mm.

Handmade in Portugal.