11 July 2017
TAP, the national Portuguese airline, has started flying to Toronto, Canada, in June. The service brings TAP back to Toronto for the first time since 1994. “Toronto in Canada will be the airline’s sixth route to North America, a market where TAP carried more than 633.000 passengers last year, equivalent to a growth of 122%”, […]
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11 July 2017
The 7th edition of the Walk & Talk Street Art Festival will be held from July 14 through July 29, on São Miguel Island, Azores, with events in Terceira Island from September 29 to October 6. The street arts festival connects the islands through the arts, with artistic residencies, new interventions in outdoor spaces, exhibitions, […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Featured, Film, Heritage, Music, Organizations, Painting, People, Photography, São Miguel, Terceira
11 July 2017
Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. Undertaken at the height of Portugal’s maritime influence, it helped to create an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal’s direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Genealogy, Goa, Heritage, Portugal, World
08 July 2017
The city of Ponta Delgada is celebrating this weekend the culmination of the Grandes Festas do Divino Espirito Santo [Great Feast of the Divine Holy Spirit] a festival inspired on the Azorean traditional devotion to the Holy Trinity. The devotion stems from the belief that the Holy Spirit dispenses graces upon graces and that those […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Religion, São Miguel
07 July 2017
One of rarest flowers in the world, known as ‘Myosotis Azorica’, grows exclusively on the island of Corvo where it was found near extinction. Endemic to the Azores, the plant was identified for the first time in 1842 by British botanist H.C. Watson, on the islands of S. Jorge, Pico, Faial, and Flores. Since 2012 […]
Posted in Azores, Corvo, Featured, Heritage, Organizations
07 July 2017
University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan has approved the renewal of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture for an additional five years. In a prepared statement Chancellor Robert E. Johnson remarked, “the Center will continue to be the nation’s preeminent university-based organization devoted to promoting and sharing the culture of […]
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