Rare cooperation between the Hydrographic Institutes of Spain and Portugal has resulted in a new nautical chart depicting the seabed at the mouth of the Guadiana river.
This warranted a presentation in Ayamonte, attended by the defence ministers of both countries, Margarita Robles and José Alberto de Azeredo, as well as Council and Armed Forces representatives.
The doors of Europe are open to criminals and the corrupt, thanks to lax, opaque, and mismanaged ‘Golden Visa’ schemes, according to a report released today by Transparency International and Global Witness.
The two anti-corruption organisations say the financial benefit of 'citizenship-and residency-by-investment' schemes is undercut by risks arising from insufficient due diligence, conflicts of interest, and wide discretionary powers.
There are nine Portuguese hotels in the final line-up for the Condé Nast Johansens Excellence Awards 2019
Nine Portuguese hotels have been nominated in the ‘Europe and the Mediterranean,’ section.
João Lúcio Pousão Pereira, know by all as João Lúcio, was outstanding as a poet and a lawyer who died as a result of the Spanish ‘Flu pandemic in 1918.
It is estimated that about 500 million people, one-third of the world's population, became infected with this virus, and the number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide.
Currently classified as a Tropical Storm, Leslie is expected to become a hurricane in two days time as it heads towards Madeira, or midway between the Azores and the Canary Islands, late on Thursday before heading to west-southwest Europe this coming weekend.
Potential exists for landfall in Portugal or even Ireland on Sunday. The computer modelling will become more accurate as time goes by, but Leslie is being monitored and warnings soon may need to be issued by Portugal's weather service and Civil Defence authority.
How many people live in the Algarve? The answer of 450,000 has been fixed in people’s minds for years but the current resident population has been shrinking this total, taken from 2010 figures.
Despite a healthy influx of foreigners, last year alone, the Algarve population declined by 1,852 to give an 11,687 decline in numbers compared to seven years ago.
Architecturally priceless mosaics at the Milreu Roman Ruins in Estoi are receiving specialist attention after €30,000 was made available by the Algarve’s Directorate of Culture.
The mosaics are one of the key reasons that the site, a Roman villa and farm, is one of the Algarve's most popular historical attractions and include depictions of fish, dolphins and the famous, if rather scary, squid, (see below).
A TAP flight from Lisbon was forced to abort its landing in Madeira on Sunday afternoon, thus avoiding a collision with a plane on the runway.
The Aircraft Accident Prevention and Investigation Bureau is investigating how and why the incoming aircraft’s pilot was not alerted by the control tower at Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport.
