11 August 2021
The World Travel Awards has nominated the Azores in three categories: (1) Europe’s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination 2021; (2); Europe’s Leading Island Destination 2021; and (3) Europe’s Responsible Tourism Award 2021. The selection of the nominees is carried out annually on a worldwide scale by the general public and for more of 200 thousand tourism […]
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10 August 2021
Delta Air Lines has resumed flights between New York-JFK and Lisbon, following the lifting of COVID’19 restrictions, on the entry of North Americans, by the Portuguese government. The airline will operate four direct weekly flights between New York-JFK and Lisbon on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For the New York-Lisbon route, Delta Air Lines will […]
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09 August 2021
After a slow start, Portugal is now ahead of schedule in vaccinating its citizens against COVID’19. “The goal of having 70% of the population of mainland Portugal vaccinated with at least one dose was reached today, before the initially planned date,” the Ministry of Health announced on Friday. “About 12.1 million vaccines have been administered […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Portugal, Travel, World
07 August 2021
My Art and My Stetson‘s main character, Aleixo de Queiroz Ribeiro, a Portuguese sculptor whose remarkable personal and professional trajectories took him to places as diverse as Paris, Lisbon, Sofia, Addis Ababa, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. Based on real people and events, […]
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05 August 2021
Pedro Pichardo, 28, is the new Olympic Champion in the triple jump. He won the 4th medal in these games, the 1st gold. The Cuban-born Pichardo athlete recorded 17.98 meters on his third attempt to clinch his first Olympic title. He previously won silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 world championships while representing Cuba. […]
03 August 2021
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, announced that the Portuguese language teaching abroad network [Ensino de Português no Estrangeiro (EPE)] will be provided with more teachers and more teaching materials in the next school year. The project will provide a “massive distribution” of computers and updated educational content to students and teachers, he […]
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