Three Algarve development associations have launched the 'Pure Algarve’ initiative to attract nature tourism to the region.
The new brand will have one multimedia website available from March 30th 2014 in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish.
The parliamentary group of the Left Bloc returned to question the government on the situation surrounding the MRI scanner service at Faro Hospital which they say is ‘at risk.’
The government has been asked this question before but as it declined to provide an answer within the stipulated 30 day period the Left Bloc again has asked when posing questions about the serious management failures at the Algarve Hospitals Group.
Finanças is launching a handy new card to hand to retailers when customers want a receipt with their tax identification number (NIF) registered.
An email is being sent to taxpayers to let them know how this card can will make this process simpler and negates the need to call out their details when in a queue.
Greece has suffered the second largest property crash in the EU since the financial crisis.
According to Eurostat, the largest property slump was in Croatia, the EU’s newest member.
Germany plans to hold only muted commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the first world war in which 37 million people were killed or wounded.
Some €4 million has been allocated to events, but this pales compared to the budgets being applied by other key nations involved.
The home of tiramisu is to shut its doors forever at the end of March.
Le Beccherie restaurant in Treviso, northern Italy, is credited with inventing the lush dessert in the 1970s. The accolade is given to the mother of the current owner, Carlo Campeol.
A government minister at last has appreciated that the Algarve’s crumbling EN 125 road needs fixing, upgrading and the planned for by-passes built.
The Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, Sérgio Silva Monteiro has given the Algarve a choice, road or railway? The answer given to the Minister was for upgrading the EN 125 road which traverses the region from the Spanish border to the region's far west.
Portugal’s Authority for Food and Economic Safety (ASAE) has busied itself inspecting 740 traders during the winter sales period which officially ended last Friday.
No doubt these hard-working ASAE officers were delighted to visit twice the number of shops than usual and spot 110 offenses being committed by dastardly retailers, up from a mere 632 last time.
