Morbid curiosity
THE HUMAN Body As Never Seen Before exhibition has received more than 100,000 visitors since opening in Lisbon in May this year. José Cardoso, a spokesman for the exhibition said:
Mother arrested
POLICE ARRESTED the mother of the newborn baby girl who was found dead on Olhos d’Água beach, in Albufeira, last Tuesday (August 21). The 26-year-old mother was arrested on Friday
Naïf art
PAINTINGS OF naïf art, including some of the work by Portuguese artist Manuel Castro, can be seen at the XXVII Salão International de Pintura Naïf art exhibition at the Galeria
New missing children helpline
By: ELOISE WALTON eloise@portugalresident.com THE PORTUGUESE government has attributed a new European wide telephone number, 116 000, for reporting cases of missing children to the Portuguese children’s institute, Instituto de
Oceânico championship
THE OCEÂNICO Developments PGA National Championship, organised by Best Golf Corporation, will be taking place today (Friday) and tomorrow from 8.30am in Vilamoura. Around 52 participants have registered in the
Our lady of light
LAGOA WILL be celebrating its annual religious festival of our Lady of Light, Nossa Senhora da Luz, on September 8 which is a bank holiday for the town. Celebrations will
Police search out ETA bases
THE PORTUGUESE police authorities, Polícia Judiciária and Guarda Nacional Republicana, are working under cover to discover the location of cells belonging to the Basque paramilitary separatist organisation, ETA, in Portugal.
Praça do Comércio closed to traffic on Sundays
ONE OF Lisbon’s most famous squares, Praça do Comércio, is to be closed to traffic on Sundays. The Lisbon Câmara initiative is to encourage less congestion and more pedestrians into
Prehistoric Portimão
Crafts such as weaving are just some of the prehistoric artefacts and reconstructions that can be viewed at the archaeological exhibition Alcalar – 5,000 Years of History near the riverbank
Premiere – August 30 – I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are two firemen who are good friends. When Larry, a widower with two small children, needs to cut through the bureaucracy to name his children