Alcoutim council has signed a deal that will see the reopening of the Guadiana River Hotel which has been closed for two years.
Currently the town suffers from a lack of accommodation, affecting its ability to attract overnight tourists, with only the Youth Hostel currently offering beds outside of the private accommodation sector.
The tower at Beja castle reopens on July 19th after a €500,000 renovation programme.
The repair and renovation of the Beja castle tower "the highest in Europe" is "a landmark step in the suite of works in progress at this monument," according to the council.
Olhão council has launched a promotional video to encourage an already growing tourism market.
The aim of the promotion is to introduce the many attractions of the city and surrounding countryside that are becoming tourism hotspots alongside a booming housing market.
Portugal’s Prime Minister has told the European Commission that there will be no more State aid for loss-making Novo Banco and if the bank is not sold after the current bidding process, it will be wound up.
However, Portugal’s Finance Minister Mário Centeno has told Brussels that he is ready to put more money in Novo Banco through a renegotiated loan from the Resolution Fund, if the offers for the bank come in low.
The six richest countries in the world host just below 9% of the world’s refugees.
The US, Germany, France, UK, Japan and China accommodate just 2.1 million refugees, according to an Oxfam report.
Switzerland is rapidly reaching its deadline for negotiating an immigration agreement with the European Union.
A Swiss referendum in 2014 called for curbs on immigration. The country’s constitution holds that the decision must be implemented by this coming February.
July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of Spain’s deadly civil war.
Still within living memory for a great many, the wound it inflicted on the country has yet to close.
It is little wonder that the Algarve's Ria Formosa island communities continue to live in fear of having their properties knocked down as every move they have made has been thwarted by a government deaf to their appeals.
Six months ago an official public petition gained the requisite number of signatures for the discussion over island property rights to be continued in parliament where MPs could ask questions of a government intent on destroying properties and the island way of life.
