Alcobaça altarpiece among this year’s 25 World Monuments Watch sites
A terracotta altarpiece located in the Monastery of Alcobaça, in west-central Portugal, is one of 25 sites chosen by the World Monuments Watch heritage safeguarding programme as in need of
Masonic ‘angle’ continues to hound ‘potentially unbeatable’ candidate for presidency
Admiral Gouveia e Melo ‘supported by mason under suspicion’ With the national media hype over immigration already under criticism, huge focus too has been put on the ‘masonic angle’ to
Snow leopard fossil discovered in Portugal “challenges long-held assumptions”
Snow leopard habitats do not need to be ‘high up in mountains’ Considering current icy temperatures, it might come as little surprise that the fossil of a snow leopard has
Portugal discusses national immigration plan
Parliament to debate first draft of how to implement Europe’s pact on immigration and asylum With immigration one of the burning subjects of the day in Portugal, parliament today is
Top Lisbon hospital “without conditions” to train medical interns
Amadora-Sintra being forced to let go of interns One of Lisbon’s busiest hospitals is being forced to ‘let go’ of its medical interns because it is not deemed to have
Portuguese government seeks to protect Culatra islanders
After years of struggle, islanders labelled ‘illegal’ are brought in from cold The door has finally opened on the fair treatment that communities on Culatra Island in Ria Formosa
Portugal signs up to United States defence programme days before new president takes office
Ceremony takes place in Lisbon in presence of outgoing ambassador With the messaging coming out of NATO veered more and more towards allies shifting to a wartime mindset, Portugal’s minister
TAP privatisation: IAG takes a(nother) very public stand
Group already owning eight airlines holds meeting for Portuguese journalists in Dublin The IAG airline group – owners of British Airways, Ibéria, Vueling and Aer Lingus, among others – has
Two small Portuguese satellites heading to space aboard SpaceX rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is sending two small Portuguese satellites into space today, one from the company LusoSpace to monitor maritime traffic and one from the University of Minho for
Lisbon bridge commuter trains to get extra carriages
Fertagus, the concessionaire of the railway service linking the south bank of the Tejo river to Lisbon has announced that it is evaluating the service and will make changes to