10 June 2020
UMass Dartmouth recently announced that Dr. Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa was chosen as the new Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, established in 1975, is a multidisciplinary international education and outreach organization dedicated to the study of the language, literature, and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal
10 June 2020
Portugal ranked again as the third most peaceful country in the world, among 163 states and territories, after Iceland and New Zealand, the Global Peace Index reported today. In 2014, Portugal ranked 18th, having moved up to third in 2019. The report by the Institute for Economics & Peace also reveals that Portugal ranks first […]
Posted in Awards, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal
07 June 2020
SATA Azores Airlines will resume international connections to North America starting July 1. Accordingly, the international connections include daily flights between Ponta Delgada and Boston and Ponta Delgada and Toronto. Other international flights starting July 1, include Praia (Cape Verde), and Frankfurt (Germany). Domestically, SATA Airlines is gradually resuming daily flights between Lisbon and Ponta Delgada; Porto […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Pico, Portugal, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World
05 June 2020
The Azores were listed “European Best Destination,” in the context of “Coronavirus Safest Destination,” among the safest travel destinations in Europe in 2020, the Government of the Azores confirmed Friday in a press release. The distinction is based on health security in the tourism sector and its related activities, the low number of COVID’19 cases, […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, Travel, World
03 June 2020
The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced today his decision to consolidate the celebrations of the 10th of June, Portugal Day, to a symbolic ceremony at the Jerónimos Monastery, in Lisbon, with just eight invited guests, due to conditions resulting from the COVID’19 pandemic. “The alternative would have been to include the Armed […]
01 June 2020
This year, public celebrations of the “Day of the Azores” were scaled down due to the restrictions resulting from the COVID’19 pandemic. Scheduled for June 1, the “Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores” is a public holiday to honor the “affirmation of the identity of the Azorean people, their philosophy of life and […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Faial, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Jorge, Terceira
