Andanças 2026 has dates and tickets, and it's four days of dancing in Reguengos de Monsaraz
The Andanças festival turns 30 and returns to Campinho, Reguengos de Monsaraz, from 13 to 16 August 2026. Full passes and day tickets, camping included, free entry for under-12s.
Some festivals are for listening to. Andanças is for dancing at, and it returns from 13 to 16 August to Campinho, in Reguengos de Monsaraz, marking 30 years of something rare in Portugal: four days where almost everyone on site is moving their feet.
When and where is Andanças 2026?
From 13 to 16 August, in the Alentejo, a few kilometres from the Monsaraz everyone photographs at sunset. It is run by the association PédeXumbo, which founded it as an international traditional music and dance gathering and has never changed its nature: dance workshops from morning to night, bals that run into the small hours, and musicians from several countries playing for people dancing in circles, in pairs and in lines.
First-timers usually arrive with the same worry — I don’t know how to dance any of this — and leave knowing half a dozen dances. That is rather the point. The workshops assume nobody knows anything, and the bands play for beginners, not for specialists.
How do tickets and camping work?
There is a full pass with unlimited re-entry, and dated day tickets limited by a capacity of roughly 2,500 people per day. Camping is included with any valid ticket, which changes the arithmetic considerably if you are travelling from far away. Under-12s go free when accompanied by an adult.
The on-site box office opens at 8pm on 13 August, but buying online in advance is the sensible route: daily capacity is small relative to demand, and August in the Alentejo is not the moment to gamble a two-hour drive on turning up.
If you are planning the month, the Alentejo and the Minho will be competing for your attention: the Romaria d’Agonia runs in Viana do Castelo from 15 to 23 August, overlapping these dates almost exactly. The programme, prices and site map are on the official Andanças site.
Image: Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
