The Cella Bar & Restaurant, built in the Madalena town of Pico island, is the winner of the 2016 ArchDaily Building of the Year Award for the Hospitality Architecture Category. Built in 2015, over the remains of an old abandoned wine warehouse, the Cella Bar & Retaurant is the creation of architect Paulo Lobo, a […]
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Pico: Cella Bar winner of the ArchDaily Hospitality Architecture Award – Azores
Posted on 10 February 2016.
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Honor: Rev. Steven Joseph Lopes consecrated Bishop in Houston – Texas
Posted on 09 February 2016.
On February 2, 2016, Portuguese American Roman Catholic prelate, Steven Joseph Lopes, 40, was consecrated a Bishop in Houston, Texas, and took up his appointment as prelate of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The Ordinariates were created as the Vatican’s pastoral response to repeated […]
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Book: ‘A Short History of Modern Angola’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 06 February 2016.
This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later as conscript workers. The colony was […]
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UK vs. EU: Portugal is against London Brexit – By Len Port
Posted on 04 February 2016.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal wants Britain to stay in the European Union, but while the new Socialist government will listen to Prime Minister David Cameron’s requests for EU reforms, certain demands would be beyond the pale. “Our position is very simple,” said Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, this week. “We […]
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Book: ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 02 February 2016.
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder […]
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Heritage: Lisbon to open museum dedicated to Jewish legacy – Portugal
Posted on 31 January 2016.
A museum dedicated to the history of Judaism in Portugal (Museu Judáico de Lisboa) will open in Lisbon in 2017. Lisbon is the only major European capital without a Jewish museum. According to an ordinance from the city town hall, the new museum will be established in São Miguel Square, in Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest quarter, […]
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