The best place to find sweets from that region. Try papos de anjo, doces de são gonçalo and castanhas!!
By the old bridge at the historical centre of Amarante.
Amarante is about 45 minutes away from Porto.
In a town full of tempting zakaroplasteia (sweet shops), Nentim is perhaps the most famous, offering as it does an amazing range of authentic Turkish sweets, ranging from several kinds of baklava and wrapped pastries to cream-laden taouk giouksou and ekmek kantaïfi, as well as the famous dondurma- a whipped sort of Turkish ice cream made of sheep’s milk.
But the offering that will really send you to the dentist is the unique local favourite: the soutzouk loukoum, a block of loukoumi dusted over with confectioner’s sugar, all laid out in a curling sausage shape.
Vasileus Konstantinou 35, Xanthi
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