01 January 2016
Starting January 1, the city of Lisbon will charge a one-euro-a-day revenue municipal tax (Taxa Municipal Turística) to tourists staying overnight in Portugal’s capital city. The new municipal tax was approved in December 2014 by the city administration. The new tax will be applied to both foreign tourists and Portuguese nationals, including Lisbon residents, who choose […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal, Travel
23 December 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) At the start of what is being hailed as “a new era” in Spanish politics, there is no clear indication as to who is going to be running the country, but a left-wing arrangement similar to that in Portugal is one of the strongest possibilities. Given that none of the […]
23 December 2015
Recently identified by the editors as the Rua Nova dos Mercadores, the principal commercial and financial street in Renaissance Lisbon, two sixteenth-century paintings, acquired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1866, form the starting point for this portrait of a global city in the early modern period. Focusing on unpublished objects, and incorporating newly discovered documents […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
22 December 2015
Flames ripped up through the third floor of the Museum of the Portuguese Language (Museu da Língua Portuguesa), in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, December 21. After three hours, the blaze was brought under control by over 100 firefighters and more than 60 fire engines. One firefighter died of injuries while battling the flames. The […]
20 December 2015
Portugal’s newly elected left-wing governing coalition, led by Socialist Prime Minister António Costa, has started talks to retake control over TAP Air Portugal. The outgoing conservative government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, had approved the privatization of the Portuguese flag carrier on November 12. By reversing the privatization deal, and retaking 51% of […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Travel, World
19 December 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Not for the first time, Spain looks like following in the footsteps of its much smaller neighbor. It’s not quite on the grand scale of the Spanish taking their cue from the Portuguese in the Age of Discoveries, or in switching from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s. However, the […]
