Portugal

CALLING ALL budding David Baileys, young and old, registration is now open for the sixth edition of Corrida Fotográfica de Portimão, a photographic contest with a fun format taking place

MORE THAN 26,000 people accessed the Algarve Tourism Board’s website, www.visitalgarve.pt to check its webcam and live weather station between January 16 and April 10 this year. According to the

BRUNO, THE only manatee that can be found in the Iberian Peninsula, now lives permanently at the Zoomarine Park in Guia, near Albufeira. He was born in May 2001 in

THE FIRST meeting of the Algarve Artists Society will take place on Monday, May 15, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, at the Raj Restaurant in the Hotel Garbe, Armação de Pêra.

THIS YEAR’S line-up for the Algarve Summer Festival, to take place at the Algarve Stadium, is still not confirmed, despite the Tourism Board’s promise that the artists’ names would be

A WOMAN who recently suffered serious facial injuries in an accident in Carvoeiro, that took place when a motorcylist failed to stop at a zebra crossing (see front page of

THE HALLELUJAH Procession, part of the Festival of the Flower Torches, one of Portugal’s oldest and most popular religious celebrations, took place in São Brás de Alportel on Easter Sunday.

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 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 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