02 September 2013
For the third time in the last five years, Lisbon was voted Europe’s Leading City Break Destination by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA). Considered to be the world ‘Oscars’ of tourism destinations, the honor tops Madrid, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, Rome and Venice. Lisbon had earned the same recognition in 2009 and 2010 over […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World
29 August 2013
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Thomas J. Cousineau’s scholarly expertise on twentieth-century literary modernism informs his new critical study An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (Dalkey Archive 2013). Cousineau offers us an informed introduction to a leading document of modernism that serves scholarly interests and undergraduate teaching needs. After earning a doctoral […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World
28 August 2013
Archaeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have identified new archaeological evidence on Pico island that supports their belief that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years. The new evidence comprises of a great variety of protohistoric pyramidal rock structures, some of them 13 […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Pico, Portugal, Terceira, World
27 August 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As the international rhetoric ratchets up over the use of chemical weapons, Portugal may to be drawn into possible foreign military intervention in the civil war in Syria, but only on the fringe. The US Secretary of State John Kerry issued the strongest signal yet that the United States intends […]
27 August 2013
Portuguese artist, Alexandre Farto (Vhils), one of the biggest names in international street art, will be represented at the first Life is Beautiful Festival taking place October 26-27 in Las Vegas (NV). The interactive art programming, complete with theatrical, visual and street art projects is comprised of three separate initiatives, bringing artists out of their […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
26 August 2013
Portugal, Canada, France, Ireland, o Japan, Norway, and Spain hold a joint fourth rank (170) on the 2013 Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index – A Global Ranking of Countries based on Freedom of Travel for their Citizens. Visa restrictions are an important tool for governments to control the movement of foreign nationals across borders. […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World
