25 August 2021
The UNESCO Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, was on a private visit to the Azores, where she toured places classified by UNESCO on São Miguel, Flores and Pico, namely the Gruta do Carvão, the Flores UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the wine-growing landscape and the Gruta das Torres on Pico. The Central Zone of the Town of Angra do […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Flores, Heritage, People, Pico, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World
25 August 2021
Portuguese American Lara Gulart named Poet Laureate 2021-2023, an honor bestowed on a noted local poet to honor his or her body of work and to celebrate poetry as an art form. El Dorado County, officially the County of El Dorado, is a county in the state of California. With roots in the Azores, with […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Faial, Featured, Flores, Interviews, People, Pico
24 August 2021
Spurred on by a family tragedy, Margarida takes a leap of faith with her children to sail from the Azores and begin a new life in Upcountry Maui. The family becomes part of a wave of immigrants who labor in Hawaii’s sugar plantations in the 1880s. Witness to the forces of business expansion and political […]
Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People
22 August 2021
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a […]
Posted in Angola, Books, Brazil, Cape Verde, Damão, Diu, East Timor, Featured, Goa, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Macau, Mozambique, People, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World
20 August 2021
By Len Port Uncertainty as to when an appeal court in Lisbon will make a decision on an Algarve municipal council’s refusal to order a developer to make an environmental impact study is exacerbating frustrations among campaigners determined to save the wetland site known as Alagoas Brancas. The campaigners are asking supporters for donations to […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal
17 August 2021
Based in New York city the ‘All4Integrity’ initiative was launched with the goal of establishing a National Integrity System in Portugal. Under the motto “Free my country from corruption” the aim is to “Identify, recognize, celebrate, and reward the work carried out by individuals, organizations and institutions, in the prevention and fight against corruption in […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal
