Gulbenkian Orchestra performs in Lagoa and Faro
Lisbon’s acclaimed Gulbenkian Orchestra is travelling south this weekend for two concerts in the Algarve, interpreting several well-known pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The first will take place on
Madonna celebrates son’s 12th birthday at Zoomarine
Guia’s award-winning theme park Zoomarine was the choice of pop diva Madonna for the celebration of her adopted son’s 12th birthday recently. According to reports, the star and the Malawi
Bizarre fire destroys “secondary evidence” in police hunt for missing Maëlys
The baffling case of a missing French-Portuguese child in the French Alps got even stranger last week when the police HQ where all evidence is stored went up in flames.
Portuguese schoolchildren “sue 47 European countries over climate change”
An extraordinary challenge laid down by schoolchildren from the fire-ravaged centre of Portugal is setting out to sue 47 European countries over their failure to tackle climate change. Backed by
Candidates snub attempts to bring clarity to gas and oil debate
With municipal elections at the door, an anti-oil campaign initiative to get candidates to answer a simple a “yes” or “no” about voting intentions regarding oil and gas drilling has
Algarve could hold key to the “sardine crisis”
Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino has revealed that experts in the Algarve are developing a strategy to repopulate Portugal’s coastal waters with sardines. In a conference set up
Music with a difference
The Amigos de Música kicked-off their 2017-2018 concert season this month with two musical evenings (September 19 and 20) of a different ilk at Os Agostos country estate (in the
3rd Guarda child death sees 3rd mother arrested
Three children have died in separate painfully tragic incidents in Guarda in the last two weeks – two of them within little more than 24 hours of each other. In
Bed-bug boom in Lisbon: the (itchy) flip-side to ‘local lodging’
They’re “plaguing” holiday apartments in Lisbon, and tourists are apparently to blame. Yes, we’re talking about bed bugs – those barely visible creatures that thrive in less than clean mattresses,
Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard wins Portugal Masters
Danish golfer Lucas Bjerregaard secured his first European Tour win at the 2017 Portugal Masters, shooting a four-round total of 20-under-par to finish four strokes ahead of Scotland’s Marc Warren.