The PCP parliamentary group have today questioned the Minister of the Sea, Ricardo Serrão Santos, over an industrial request to install a mussel culture establishment in marine waters in the open sea, just off the coast between Sagres and Vila do Bispo. This aquaculture establishment will be intended for the growth and fattening of mussels.
The town of Alvor has been named as one of 25 emerging world destinations to visit in 2020 by Trip Advisor, the international travel platform revealed this week. The town, located in the municipality of Portimão is the only Portuguese location to enter the top 25 emerging destinations for this year, which was outlined at an award ceremony titled the “Travelers Choice Awards for Destinations”, which were divided into two categories: Trends, on the destinations that had the most positive reviews, and Emerging, which included the destinations that travellers have expressed the most interest in visiting in their future travels.
The perennial problems eating away at the Algarve’s State-run hospitals have seen health minister Marta Temido come up with a drastic solution.
The Food Co. store opened in Almancil on Tuesday (February 25), bringing around 7,500 British and Tesco-branded products to the Algarve.
Loulé Council has announced that the town’s Carnival festivities, held between Sunday and Tuesday (February 23-25), attracted around 75,000 people.
Algarve mineral water company Água de Monchique has invested €8.5 million in a major rebranding move which also saw it double its water bottling capacity in hopes of reaching a 10.8% market share in 2020.
Traveling on the Via do Infante motorway will be cheaper starting in July. This is one of the seven new motorway measures where discounts of up to 40% will be available for the most frequent users of these roads.
The former beer factory of Unicer, now the Super Bock Group, in the Industrial Zone of Loulé, will be transformed into film and audio-visual studios, in an investment of 60 million euros made by two British entities.
