Author: Portugal Resident

FARO MUNICIPAL bombeiros celebrate their 124th anniversary this week and, to mark the milestone, a series of initiatives and commemorations are being organised to raise awareness about the important work

The St. Patrick’s Society of the Algarve has made a donation of 50 blankets to the Silves-based charity Castelo de Sonhos. The Society’s chairman, Jim Brownlow and committee member, Julie

JUST TWO weeks before the Faro Atrium in Rua de Santo António in Faro is due to open, the identity of the tenants of the 32 stores remains unknown. A

WITH THE general theme of ‘You Can Be a Winner’ the Jack Petchey Foundation award ceremony held on Wednesday, November 15, at the Montechorro Hotel in Albufeira began after a

HIGHLY REGARDED French lawyer Gilbert Collard has announced that he will be working with the defence team of Corinne Caspar, the woman at the centre of the controversial Intermezzo case.

EIGHT YEARS after it was first hosted in Vilamoura, one of the most important events in the golfing sector, the International Golf Travel Market, may return to the Algarve. An

A GROUP of golfers who have raised 350,000 euros for local charities since first getting together on Vilamoura courses in 1998 are now looking forward to their 2007 event. Every

ALGARDECOR, THE Algarve’s answer to the Ideal Home Exhibition, is now on at EXPOFARO, located alongside the municipal swimming pool complex in Faro. The exhibition space totals 3,000sqm and visitors

THE RESIDENT will be publishing a further guide to all things Christmassy in the next issue. All hotel and restaurant owners, schools, charities, associations, câmaras, shops and so on, are