The explorer David Mearns discovered the astrolabe in 2014, one of the almost three thousand artifacts recovered from the Esmeralda that had spent more than 500 years at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, lost to a storm in the Arabian Sea.
Marine archaeologists recovered the artifact from what they believed to be the wreck of the Esmeralda, a ship in the Vasco da Gama fleet.
The motion of censure, "for the failure of the Government in the tragic fires of 2017" tabled by the opposition CDS-PP party, today was voted down in parliament.
Tactical voting from the government’s left wing support group was, never-the-less, grudging with the refusal of left wing parties to praise the conduct of the government displayed before, during or after the summer fires that resulted in over 110 people losing their lives.
Lagos is having the day off on Friday with celebrations in honour of São Gonçalo de Lagos, a local who was made a Saint by Pope Pius VI.
After a ceremony at 9.30 in the Plaza Gil Eanes, there will be an outdoor Mass in the Jardim da Constituição at 10.30, which also is the starting point for the São Gonçalo procession at 11:30.
Youngsters living on the Ria Formosa island of Culatra soon will have a sailing school, courtesy of Faro council.
The Ginásio Clube Naval in Faro, the Culatra island residents’ association and the council are signing an agreement on Wednesday to enable this project to go ahead.
The 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon already has seen 55,000 tickets sold, at up to €1,500 each
The estimate is by Paddy Cosgrave, the founder of this event who said the number of 'start-up' company delegates that have booked was up 30% with new ideas and companies coming from all over the world.
Tiago Martins Oliveira has been appointed by the Prime Minister to manage the government’s new, improved Integrated System of Rural Fire Management - he starts work on Tuesday after he is formally welcomed, mid-morning.
Oliveira is a 48-year-old from Oporto and gained a doctorate in 2017 in forestry and natural resources from the University of Lisbon. He graduated in Forestry Engineering (1994) and completed a Master's Degree in Natural Resource Management at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (1998).
The leaking pipeline between Funcho reservoir and the Alcantarilha water treatment station is to be fixed by Águas do Algarve.
Despite millions of cubic metres of water a year flooding from ruptures in the pipeline, the water company is in no hurry, with an estimated completion date for the urgent work not scheduled until early in 2019.
An extraordinary case that reveals some judges' legal thinking is rooted in Mediaeval interpretations of the Bible has seen a woman who had an affair, subsequently being violently attacked with a nail-spiked club by her husband and her lover, escape jail with suspended sentences and fines - the legal equivalent of a 'slap on the wrist.'
The Oporto court of appeal upheld an earlier judgement that the violence suffered was all the woman’s fault as she was the one who had erred from the righteous path of matrimonial fidelity.
