The Azores archipelago comes among the “Best of the World” categories listing the 25 most beautiful, must-visit places in 2023, according to the December edition of National Geographic Traveler magazine. This is the second time the Azores are awarded this distinction. In 2016, the Azores was among best places in the world to visit, as […]
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Travel: Azores among the most beautiful places in the world to visit – National Geographic
Posted on 06 November 2022.
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Almeida Maia: One of the most compelling Azorean writers of his generation – Interview
Posted on 05 November 2022.
By Carolina Matos, Editor Novelist and poet, Pedro Filipe Almeida Maia was born in 1979, in Ponta Delgada, Azores, where he lives. A psychologist by training, he stepped into his literary career in 1996 as a lyricist, writing for local musicians. One of the most acclaimed, most prolific, and most awarded Azorean writers of his […]
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Opinion|The COP 27 Climate Conference must ensure action – By Len Port
Posted on 03 November 2022.
The United Nations COP 27 climate conference, which starts at the end of this week, could be of pivotal importance to the entire planet and of special significance to Portugal. Portugal is doing all the right things to limit global warming, but it remains highly vulnerable because of what much bigger nations are not doing. […]
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Travel Alert: TAP Air Portugal cabin workers to strike early December – Portugal
Posted on 03 November 2022.
TAP Air Portugal cabin crew workers, represented by the National Civil Aviation Flight Personnel Union (SNPVAC), advanced this Thursday a strike notice for December 8 and 9. The workers’ action, supported by the airliner pilots, is in response to a proposed new workers’ contract presented by the carrier. According to the notice, the workers demand […]
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Web Summit: The world’s largest technology event returns to Lisbon – Portugal
Posted on 31 October 2022.
The Web Summit, the world’s largest technology event in the world, and Europe’s largest tech event, returns to Lisbon with more than 70,000 worldwide attendees, 2,630 exhibiting start-ups and companies, 1,120 investors, and 1,040 speakers from 160 countries attending. Starting November 1 through November 4, the event returned to the Altice Arena, a multi-purpose indoor […]
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Book | Leaving Pico: A Novel | by Frank X. Gaspar – Editor’s Note
Posted on 28 October 2022.
This new 3rd edition of Leaving Pico makes Frank X. Gaspar’s award-winning coming-of-age novel accessible to a new generation the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown (MA), where Josie Carvalho’s life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his great aunt’s fervent, if idiosyncratic, Catholicism. The counterweight to these forces has […]
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