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 Focusing on unpublished objects, and incorporating newly discovered documents […]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 […]
17 December 2015
The archipelago of the Azores was once again placed under a weather “red alert” for Friday, the highest of a four-scale alert system, described as a “situation of extreme risk.” It is the second time this week that a weather red alert was issued for the islands. According to the Portuguese Institute of Sea and […]
17 December 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As the implications of the Paris agreement on climate change began to hit home in countries around the world this week, there was no great sigh of relief in the Algarve where concerns are running high about oil and gas explorations. With the future of the planet at stake,195 countries […]
