A bust of Cristiano Ronaldo was unveiled on Wednesday in the newly named airport in Madeira, becoming a social media sensation for all the wrong reasons.
Even the sculptor commented that “Not even Jesus pleased everyone," as the online criticism of the approximation of the football star’s image reverberated across cyberspace.
The Association of Local Accommodation in Portugal (ALEP) announced today that the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, that it is not necessary to get agreement from all apartment owners for one apartment or more to be let short-term to tourists, gives some legal stability to the sector.
The recent Supreme Court decision in favor of local accommodation flexibility concerns a case in Lisbon where apartment owners won a case against one apartment owner who was letting his property under the Alojamento Local (AL) scheme, claiming that they all had to agree before any lettings could take place.
Against many odds, including the torrential rainfall, the 1st Festival of Smuggling held in Alcoutim was a roaring success with thousands of visitors from Spain and Portugal enjoying the two day event.
The council is delighted with the results, especially the with the floating bridge laid between Alcoutim and Sanlúcar de Guadiana on the Spanish side, which attracted around 10,000 people.
A new documentary about a Mega-tsunami hitting Portugal and Spain has alerted those in its predicted path that there is little than can be done to avoid disaster, death and economic loss.
The question is not if, but when will the tsunami hit the southern coastline with the documentary La Gran Ola (The Great Wave) claiming that that there are no emergency plans in place in Spain or Portugal to deal with this scientific certainty.
Portugal’s Post Office service, CTT, is increase the cost of sending letters of up to 100 grammes as from April 4th.
According to CTT's new price information revealed today, a letter of up to 20 grammes sent by regular mail currently cost 47 cents but will go up to 50 cents as from next Tuesday.
Management of the Ikea store opening near Loulé on Thursday 30th March, is planning for two million visitors in the first year of activity. This upbeat prediction comes from the director of the shop, Abdelhak Ayadi.
In a pre-launch meeting with journalists, Ayadi said the retail unit is not one of Ikea’s standard stores, as its product range has been adapted to the local market, especially the resident foreign community.
The government has met representatives from the main parliamentary parties to discuss the sale of Novo Banco, a process that the prime minister (pictured) and finance minister insist is going very well.
Even after today’s four separate meetings, with four sets of government officials each taking a political party, if the conditions of sale have to be discussed in parliament, a scenario being pushed heavily by the Left Bloc, there is little hope that the government’s current plan will face anything but opposition.
The Algarve motorway tolls are going to be discussed in parliament on Thursday with the Left Bloc and the Communist Party wanting tolls abolished and the Social Democrats opting for suspension until the EN125 is finished, which amounts to much the same thing.
Ever since the tolls were foisted on a resistant public in 2011, just as the recession really started to hurt, many of the region’s regular drivers have tried to get the tolls reduced or, better still, abolished. Those that can, have been using the EN125 which even the prime minister has agreed is wholly unsuitable as an alternative route - mind you, that was just before he became prime minister..
