Portugal

By Sophie McCarrick sophie.mccarrick@algarveresident.com Seven stores at the Retail Park in Portimão have been razed to the ground, as the result of a fire that broke out in the early

Lagos Town Hall and the Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento (CEsA), a research centre focusing on Africa and which is part of the Technical University of Lisbon,

With the aim of turning Vilamoura into a more eco-friendly resort and making the most of the area’s 22 kilometres of cycle lanes, Inframoura, the entity responsible for managing Vilamoura’s

Four environmental associations have sent a letter to the Portuguese President to alert him of the contentious tourist resort that is planned for the Praia Grande-Salgados area in Albufeira. In

Portugal is losing “250,000 tourists a year” due to the lack of investment in the Portimão Cruise Port, according to Members of Parliament (MP) Mendes Bota, Elsa Cordeiro and Cristóvão

A daring lone robber, who has evaded capture by the police following a series of eight armed assaults in banks in the Algarve since 2009, struck again last week at

Following the new austerity measures announced by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho on Friday (September 7), the Portuguese people have been organising protests all around the country under the banner

The third annual event of the Sagres Birdwatching Festival is kicking off with a volunteer clean-up operation in Sagres on Sunday, September 30. Organised by the Portuguese Society for the

The Municipal Assembly of Vila Real de Santo António has approved a proposal by the Socialist Party (Partido Socialista – PS) that sees the merging of the municipality with its