From Friday until Monday, Quinta de Marim in the Ria Formosa Natural Park in Olhão, is the venue for an arts and environmental awareness festival.
Portuguese drivers are among the most compliant in Europe, but only when it comes to paying fines.
This April’s hotel occupancy figures for the Algarve show a concerning drop of close on 10% compared to last April.
In an unusual judicial move, a Portuguese court has sentenced an arsonist to jail.
The president of the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC) said there will be 50 machines, a mixture of aircraft and helicopters, available this summer to fight fires in Portugal.
A 60-year-old dog breeder, who also is a farmer and a manager of an agricultural company, has received the heaviest sentence yet under Portugal’s 2014 pet protection laws.
Lagos Council is launching a €1.3 million project to builkd a 1.85 metre wide pedestrian walk way at the side of the EM537 between Quatro Estradas on the EN125 and Praia da Luz.
The work is expected to start in the last quarter of 2018 and aims to sort out ‘existing anomalies’ in the pavement, as well as building proper drainage and installing low-energy lighting.
It is fair to conclude that Portugal’s privatised Post Office, CTT, is performing poorly but that there are signs of life.
