According to PSD parliamentarian Cristóvão Norte, the government will channel 950 million euros to new hospitals in the centre of the country this legislature, meaning that none of them will be built in the Algarve. Mr. Norte says that this is yet another "flagrant abandonment of the Algarve for no good reason".
In October of this year tourists from the United Kingdom contributed around 700,000 overnight stays to the Algarve’s hotel industry, a 4% increase over the same month last year, the National Statistics Institute (INE) has just revealed. This goes against what many have speculated, and signifies that even with Brexit looming and a struggling pound throughout the year, British tourists haven’t been put off visiting the Algarve.
The Polícia Judiciária have detained an individual on suspicion of intentionally causing 11 forest fires around São Brás de Alportel, Faro.
Opening in court today is a civil case for damages taken out by Africa’s ‘richest woman’ Isabel dos Santos (daughter of former long-term president José Eduardo dos Santos) against former Portuguese MEP and anti-corruption ‘bulldog’ Ana Gomes.
Portugal is to spend €23 million preparing to take the reins of the EU’s revolving presidency – for a fourth time – in 2021.
A new motorhome park has opened in the rural village of São Marcos da Serra in Silves.
Over 2,000 trees were planted in Monchique on Saturday (December 14) by 50 volunteers as part of the Ryanair-backed project ‘Renature Monchique’.
The world’s avocado obsession has become the Algarve’s new ecological debate. The microclimate of the region, alongside increased demand for avocados, is driving the production of this subtropical fruit in the Algarve, even though only a tiny percentage of them remains in Portugal and most are exported to other European countries.
