10 January 2016
Review by Jame DiBiasio(*) “Had there been more of the world,” wrote Luís de Camões of the Portuguese explorers, they “would have discovered it”. That’s a line from Roger Crowley’s fantastic new narrative history, Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire. Crowley is out to reset the primacy of […]
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10 January 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The mystery of what happened to Madeleine McCann is slipping unsolved into its ninth year. Investigations seem set to continue at high cost but dubious worth. The british Metropolitan Police Service investigation codenamed Operation Grange has so far cost £10.5 million (the official figure), but has it come up with […]
05 January 2016
The Luso American Development Foundation (FLAD) is hosting a group of 46 US students and faculty from the University of Rhode Island (URI), the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) participating in the ‘January Term 2016’, a study visit program taking place in Portugal January 5-20. Organized by the […]
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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 […]
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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 Focusing on unpublished objects, and incorporating newly discovered documents […]
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