Algarve

LAW FIRM, Neville de Rougemont & Associates (NDR) has just opened a new branch in Faro. The new office is the company’s first in the Algarve, but the long-term aim

THE AVERAGE room occupation rate at the region’s hotels and resorts reached 30.7 per cent last month, an increase of 9.8 per cent in relation to figures recorded in January

ON DECEMBER 8 2004, a grey seal pup was brought to Zoomarine’s Porto d’Abrigo, a rehabilitation centre for marine species, by the government’s Instituto da Conservação da Natureza (ICN), the

EUROPE’s largest yacht and leisure marine industry fair, Nauticampo, opened at Lisbon’s FIL exhibition centre recently with more than 556 exhibitors from 26 countries. Expected to attract around 110,000 visitors,

IF YOU have a desire for furniture that’s different, special and unique, which can’t be bought from Algarve Shopping or is ‘run of the mill’, go to James Owens of

IN AN ATTEMPT to find methods to urgently boost trade, dozens of Tavira’s shop owners attended a meeting with the Associação do Comércio e Servicos da Região do Algarve (ACRAL),

FARO AIRPORT has just announced some very welcome news – a new low cost flight to Copenhagen. The twice weekly scheduled service to Denmark begins this week and will be

THE NUMBER of utentes, people registered at the Algarve’s health centres (Centros de Saúde), without a family doctor has reduced significantly in the last three years. At the moment, the

THE REMAINING visionary of Fátima, Sister Lúcia dos Santos, died last Sunday (February 13), aged 97 years, at her Carmelite convent in Coimbra. With her death disappears the last living

IN AN effort to improve safety on Portugal’s roads, a series of strict measures will be introduced next month under the new Código da Estrada (Road Code). Heavier fines, drug