Lisbon is one of the most affordable cities in Western Europe, revealed figures from the Hotel Price Index, compiled from bookings made through Hotels.com, one of the world’s largest booking websites for 130,000 hotels around the world. The numbers revealed that in 2010 a 5-star hotel room in Lisbon would cost €83, while in Warsaw, Poland, […]
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Lisbon among least costly – Portugal
Posted on 22 March 2011.
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Portuguese venture at Silicon Valley – California
Posted on 22 March 2011.
Portuguese software developing companies will be featured at the “Plug and Play Tech Center” at Silicon Valley home to many of the world’s largest technology corporations, after a group of Portuguese start-up entrepreneurs toured Silicon Valley looking for partnerships. In Portugal the AICEP Portugal Global has launched the “Portugal Innovate With Us” initiative aimed at […]
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Film “Mists” by Ricardo Costa – Providence
Posted on 22 March 2011.
The art-film “Mists” (Brumas) (2003), will be featured on April 6, at the Cable Car Cinema & Café, 204 South Main Street, Providence, RI, sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. “Mists” is a Portuguese language production directed by filmmaker Ricardo Costa. The film premiered at the 60th Venice Film Festival (2003) and […]
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“The Best Chocolate Cake in the World” – New York
Posted on 22 March 2011.
Portuguese Chef Carlos Braz Lopes is now world renown for his famous invention – the Best Chocolate Cake in the World – an idea that started as a joke in 2002, when Chef Lopes was noticed by his Lisbon neighborly clients for a chocolate cake that – “voilá” – tasted different from the rest. The […]
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Azorean Identity in Brazil and the USA – Book
Posted on 22 March 2011.
The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth are launching “Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections,” a book by João Leal. The author has done extensive research on Holy Ghost Festivals in the Azores and in […]
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Portuguese created 1st iPhone App – Lisbon
Posted on 21 March 2011.
The first worldwide virtual offices application for the iPhone, dubbed myOffice, was developed by the Portuguese software company Avila Business Center based in Lisbon. The application, created specifically for the needs of virtual office users, is now available free for all Portugal-based Avila Business Center’s clients at the Lisbon Apple App Store. According to a company […]
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