Algarve gardens
Algarve Resident gardening contributor Rosie Peddle will be giving a talk on gardening and landscape management techniques at the Municipal Library in Lagoa on Tuesday, June 12 at 6pm. Rosie
Aljezur proactive on forest fire threat
Aljezur Câmara has spent €170,000 in fire prevention works in the council. In cooperation with Lagos and Vila do Bispo Câmaras, Aljezur has been able to implement and maintain a
Beach party!
Praia da Rocha is the place to be over the duration of the European Football Championships. From today’s (Friday) kick-off in Poland and the Ukraine, fans can watch every game
Earliest evidence of iberian jews found in Silves
A team of archaeologists of the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, found the oldest archaeological evidence of Jewish culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site near São Bartolomeu
Fashion week at AlgarveShopping
AlgarveShopping in Guia is holding a Fashion Week starting on June 6 at 3pm and running for 12 days. The event will offer customers free image and fashion consulting services.
Get on your bikes and ride against the A22 tolls
“We won’t be stopped until the tolls get dropped” could be the motto of the Algarve’s leading anti-tolls group as it now prepares to hold another protest, this time a
Jewish Community hosts lecture
Dona Gracia Mendes, described as one of the greatest women in Portuguese Jewish history, was the topic of a recent lecture in Albufeira, arranged by the Jewish Community of Southern
MP calls on government to lower VAT in restaurant sector
Algarve Socialist (PS) MP Miguel Freitas is calling on the government to reduce VAT from 23% to the original 13% for the restaurant sector. Since January, restaurants in Portugal began
New dive centre
Hotel Vila Galé Albacora in Tavira will be inaugurating its first dive centre tomorrow (Saturday). The Udiving Albacora will be operating from the hotel’s private dock near Tavira Island and
New Fado sensation in São Brás
Famous Portuguese Fado singer Carminho will be performing at São Brás de Alportel’s Jardim da Verbena tonight (Friday) at 10pm. The free to enter concert, to mark the 98th anniversary

