The expanding face of Century 21
THE HAPPY team of Century 21 (from left: Rita Dwyer, Pedro Miguel, Tanja Rapp and Sónia Caetano), which recently opened a new agency in Lagos, will be delighted to help
4,000 candles to remember Lisbon’s massacred Jews
BETWEEN APRIL 19 and 21, 1506, an angry mob of Lisbon citizens stormed the Jewish quarter of the city and massacred thousands of Jews. In neighbouring Spain, the so-called Catholic
Algarve estate agency exhibits in London’s
A PLACE in the Sun, the UK’s Channel 4’s TV series presented by the well-known Amanda Lamb, hosted an exciting exhibition by the same name at the Docklands’ ExCeL Centre
Algarve Summer Festival stars confirmed at last
SPECULATION AND rumour have surrounded the details of the Algarve Summer Festival’s line-up for months, but finally, following a press conference last Friday, the artists for this year’s event are
Association to hold Buying and Selling Property Seminar
FOLLOWING LAST year’s successful Buying and Selling Property Seminar, AFPOP is repeating it this year at the Hotel Vila Galé Ampalius in Vilamoura, on Wednesday, May 10, at 10am. Dr.
British Consulate to introduce biometric passports from May
THE BRITISH Consulate in Lisbon will begin issuing biometric passports with effect from May 29, 2006. The cut-off date for accepting applications for the current format, machine-readable passports is Friday,
Illegal immigration network dismantled
A NETWORK of people with links to Moldavia, thought to be facilitating illegal immigration by selling counterfeit work contracts in the Algarve, was dismantled this week by the Serviço de
Loulé ranks among richest boroughs in country
LOULÉ IS ranked among the top 25 richest boroughs in the country in terms of spending power, according to the 2006 Sales Index from information management firm, Marktest. In regional
March was best month ever for golf
MARCH WAS the best month ever in terms of the number of rounds of golf played in the Algarve, according to Região de Turismo do Algarve (RTA), the Algarve Tourism
Mass to honour Mozart in Loulé
AS PART of the 250th anniversary celebrations of Mozart’s birth, the Igreja Matriz in Loulé will host a mass dedicated to the Austrian composer on April 23 at 11.30am. The

