12 June 2022
By Len Port Summer has arrived with a vengeance. On top of the drought during our normally wet winter, Portugal has been unusually hot, and both the drought and the recent heat seem set to worsen. The drought began in November 2021. The resulting low levels in the reservoirs have severely impeded hydroelectric power generation […]
10 June 2022
Google Doodle has once again added June 10th – Day of Portugal – to its list of dates to celebrate with all honors. For the occasion, this year Google Doodle honors the Sobreiro, the National Tree of Portugal. The following is how the search engine site describes the tribute: “Happy Portugal Day or Dia de […]
10 June 2022
Portugal is celebrating today, the 10th of June – “Day of Portugal” – with a public holiday, while multiple celebrations are taking place across the world in the Portuguese diaspora. In the United States the occasion is marked, coast to coast, by major festivities and cultural events. In Canada, on June 10th, where many cultural […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
08 June 2022
World renowned painter, Paula Rego, one of the most internationally acclaimed and awarded Portuguese artists, died this Wednesday morning in London, aged 87. Born in 1935 in Lisbon, into an affluent family, Paula Rego was sent to a British finishing school and studied at the London’s prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Later she acquired […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, Painting, People, Portugal, World
06 June 2022
Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies — Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau — and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, World
06 June 2022
This year, on June 6, the people of the Azores celebrate “Azores Day” or “Dia da Região Autónoma dos Açores” [Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores], a public holiday, observed throughout the archipelago, to honor self-rule, identity and pride, the “affirmation of the identity of the Azorean people, their philosophy of life and […]
Posted in Azores, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira, World
