Moncarapacho's Monterosa extra virgin olive oil has won two gold medals at the New York International Olive Oil Competition on April 27th, the most prestigious category: one with the monovarietal Monterosa Picual and the other with Monterosa Selection.
At the start of the week, the Algarve brand won a gold medal with the Monterosa Picual monovarietal in the Japan Olive Oil Competition and two silver medals with the Monterosa Maçanilha monovarietal and the Monterosa Selection.
Guarda’s abandoned Hotel Turismo for years has stood empty, a reminder of the State’s ill-conceived idea to turn this once-proud hotel into a training centre for hospitality workers.
Finally, a decision: to include the building in the Revive list of unused State assets offered to the market on advantageous terms.
According to the Labour Minister, Vieira da Silva, the end of March unemployment statistics represent "a moment of great significance" as the headline rate drops below the 10% mark for the first time since 2009.
The minister said today that the unemployment rate had fallen to 9.9%, due to “a job creation dynamic that many considered impossible".
The Algarve coast again has been blessed with the arrival of free bales of hashish, securely packaged and drifting near beaches at Aljezur and Vila do Bispo.
The Sines department of the Coastal Control Unit of the GNR has secured a total of 151 kilograms of hashish that arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, packed in four bales.
Lagos council is hosting its 9th Festival of the Discoveries, starting today and continuing until May 1st.
Over the next five days, the city will immerse itself in centuries of history with the theme "A Meeting of Cultures of the West African Coast" with sixteenth-century fairs, historical parades, music and street entertainment.
Ria Formosa Week, in fact four days between May 2nd to 6th, aims to highlight local environmental issues and the conservation of nature, with the support of Águas do Algarve.
The Ria Formosa natural park area is one of the most important wetlands in Portugal and the series of events aims to enlighten local people, especially schoolchildren, as to what is on their doorstep.
A new citizens movement to save what is left of Faro’s old buildings has been established by local architect Filipe Monteiro and 'heritage activist' Fernando Silva Grade.
The first public meeting to discuss the destruction of some of the Algarve’s most notable vernacular buildings will be held on Friday, May 5 under the crystal clear heading 'No to the destruction of what remains of the architectural heritage of Faro.'
The Ministers of the Environment and Foreign Affairs have been called to parliament to explain the rigged report on Spain’s ancient Almaraz nuclear power station - a report that concluded that there was no problem at all with the building of additional facilities for storing nuclear waste next to the Tagus river, even though it then flows through Portugal as the 'Tejo'.
The demand for an urgent hearing came from the Left Bloc, which said today that the government's decision, expressed in the Portuguese Environment Agency report, was seriously unacceptable.
