The Luso American Development Foundation (FLAD) is hosting a group of 46 US students and faculty from the University of Rhode Island (URI), the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) participating in the ‘January Term 2016’, a study visit program taking place in Portugal January 5-20. Organized by the […]
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SiPN: US universities participate in study visit program – FLAD, Portugal
Posted on 05 January 2016.
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Travel – Lisbon to charge a municipal revenue tax to overnight visitors – Portugal
Posted on 01 January 2016.
Starting January 1, the city of Lisbon will charge a one-euro-a-day revenue municipal tax (Taxa Municipal Turística) to tourists staying overnight in Portugal’s capital city. The new municipal tax was approved in December 2014 by the city administration. The new tax will be applied to both foreign tourists and Portuguese nationals, including Lisbon residents, who choose […]
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Opinion: Spain, like Portugal, leaning to the left – By Len Port
Posted on 23 December 2015.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) At the start of what is being hailed as “a new era” in Spanish politics, there is no clear indication as to who is going to be running the country, but a left-wing arrangement similar to that in Portugal is one of the strongest possibilities. Given that none of the […]
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Book: ‘The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 23 December 2015.
Recently identified by the editors as the Rua Nova dos Mercadores, the principal commercial and financial street in Renaissance Lisbon, two sixteenth-century paintings, acquired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1866, form the starting point for this portrait of a global city in the early modern period. Focusing on unpublished objects, and incorporating newly discovered documents […]
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Heritage: Museum of the Portuguese Language went up in flames – Brazil
Posted on 22 December 2015.
Flames ripped up through the third floor of the Museum of the Portuguese Language (Museu da Língua Portuguesa), in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, December 21. After three hours, the blaze was brought under control by over 100 firefighters and more than 60 fire engines. One firefighter died of injuries while battling the flames. The […]
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TAP: Socialist government to retake control of Portuguese flag carrier – Portugal
Posted on 20 December 2015.
Portugal’s newly elected left-wing governing coalition, led by Socialist Prime Minister António Costa, has started talks to retake control over TAP Air Portugal. The outgoing conservative government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, had approved the privatization of the Portuguese flag carrier on November 12. By reversing the privatization deal, and retaking 51% of […]
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