Lisbon

THE MOST eccentric guide to Lisbon since Baedecker has been launched by the publishing group Le Cool. The Weird and Wonderful Guide to Lisbon by long-time editor Joana Pinto Correia

LISBON CÂMARA is to receive 812,000 euros in EU grants to put in cycling routes around the city. The project, which falls within the government’s National Strategic Development Reference Plan

THE IRISH community in Lisbon enjoyed the dulcet acapella tones of rising Irish star Róisín Elsafty at a concert at the Bom Successo Church in Lisbon on Saturday. The traditional

MADONNA, THE world’s biggest female pop icon today, proved that she still has what it takes to put on a show in Lisbon on Sunday. Madonna fever had been building

FIVE OF Lisbon’s 13 municipal swimming pools will remain closed for an indefinite period. The pools at Alvito in Alcântara, Areeiro in Avenida da Roma, Baptista Pereira in Avenida de

LISBON WAS once again the centre of sporting excitement on Thursday as the best rally cars and motorbikes in the world lined up for the ‘off’ for the second Pax

BANCO ESPÍRITO Santo has launched an Art Lounge in Lisbon’s city centre to showcase examples from its art and photography collection. BES Arte e Finança is a modern two-storey exhibition

LISBON COUNCIL is planning to limit the number of cars entering the city, by reducing parking places. The project aims to focus the capital’s development from the area surrounding the

LISBON CÂMARA is to spend five million euros restoring a 1930s pavilion in the centre of the city’s Eduardo VII Park. The majority of the restoration funds for the mock

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com UNITED STATES Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she did not believe it was in the Russians interests to be isolated from the rest of the