Algarve

ARTE VIVA, a live art and music festival, is taking place at São Brás Museum this weekend. The event takes place tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday from 6pm to midnight. Around 40

A LOCAL food festival is being organised to raise funds to help complete a new retirement and day care centre. Organisers at Pêra parish are holding the Arraial do Petisco

AROUND ONE billion euros is due to be spent by 2010 to revolutionise tourism in Lagos. Five-star hotels, luxury resorts and golf courses are expected to transform Lagos into one

NEWLYN PORTUGAL, developers of Victoria Boulevard in Vilamoura, has selected Jardim Vista S.A. and Richard Westcott to execute the landscape and gardening of the resort. Lush subtropical gardens with open

SHOP OWNERS in Tavira have banded together to create an association to encourage more customers to the historic centre and to try to stop many stores from closing. Created by

PORTUGUESE INTERNATIONAL and Manchester United’s golden boy Cristiano Ronaldo spent his holidays in Vale do Lobo in June. He stayed in a luxurious beach-side villa in Oceano Clube in Vale

The ALGARVE Orchestra’s greatly anticipated concert on the golf course in Vale do Lobo is due to take place tomorrow (Saturday) night at 7.30pm. Offering picturesque views from the 18th

AFTER SEVERAL delays to the completion date, the highway linking Quarteira and Loulé finally opened on Friday (July 6). A total investment of 20 million euros went into this project,

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com DOLPHINS ARE back in the Guadiana River thanks to the cleaner waters and the quantity of food available. However, they only risk going a little north

TAVIRA HAS been named as the area with the most water wastage in the Algarve. A total of 52.4 per cent of water distributed ends up being wasted, according to