Tavira is to host its 6th Spring Show, from 27-29 April, celebrating the city’s UNESCO status as the home of the Mediterranean diet.
About 100 exhibitors and 70 stands will present a diversity of traditional products and handicrafts characteristic of the Tavira area and Algarve region.
The Portuguese Antique Automobile Club is holding its Spring Tour this Sunday, April 22nd, with a hill climb and a parade of vehicles from the ’20 through to the ‘80s
Rolls Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, BMW, Porsche and MG will be some of the marques being put through their paces after gathering at the Real Marina Hotel in Olhão at 09:00 for the start of the IVth Spring Tour.
Rain returned to the Algarve on Friday afternoon and is set to continue all weekend - alongside thunderstorms.
The weather service tries to put a positive spin on things by saying the temperature will remain mild but admitted that rain, showers and thunderstroms are expected across the south of the country this weekend and into next week.
São Brás de Alportel locals have the opportunity to express their opinions on a new business park planned for the Mesquita Baixa area.The council says the project is, "strategic for the economic development of the municipality," and has taken years to get to the public consultation stage which starts on April 30th and runs until May 28th.
Pintadinho beach, near Ferragudo has been a local favourite for generations of sun and sand lovers. The single access road leads down to a large sandy car parking area with a beach bar restaurant for snacks and drinks.This is about to change as a local developer is building a new restaurant and car park 'for patrons only,' severely restricting public access to an area to be rebranded, ‘Edd’s Beach.’
The shameful situation at the landfill site in Salir, where liquid pollution is seeping into the river Vascão, had been raised in parliament with the Environment Minister again under pressure to explain his department’s role.Social Democratic MPs from the Algarve today questioned João Matos Fernandes on the situation of leachate runoff from the Sotavento Algarvio Landfill in Salir and the resulting pollution in the local river.
The prime minister announced in parliament today that the government will begin studies into the construction of a new central hospital for the Algarve."We have to open studies on the hospital of the Algarve," said António Costa, during a debate that also covered five new medical facilities to be built over the next few years as detailed in the 2018-2022 Stability and Growth Pact.
Disgraced banker, Ricardo Salgado, is formally to be charged with paying €500,000 to the then Minister of the Economy, Manuel Pinho.
The payment was in return for giving EDP cushy tax benefits of €1.2 billion, granted to the electricity company by the government when Pinho was a Minister.
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