27 February 2013
Urban City Guides online has named Lisbon fourth in its top 10 list of the most beautiful cities in the world to visit after Venice, Paris and Prague. Considering Lisbon one of the world’s “most scenic cities,” Urban City Guides describes the Portuguese capital as being, “Magnificently sited on a series of hills running down to the grand […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, Travel, World
26 February 2013
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) At about one-hour drive north of Lisbon, the town of Tomar occupies a special place in the history of Portugal and the world. Built inside the walls of the Castle of Tomar, one of the finest examples of 12th Century military architecture, the original medieval town was established in 1159 on […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Brazil, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Porto Santo, Portugal, Religion, São Miguel, TopSpotlight, Travel, World
26 February 2013
Members of the Portuguese community are gathering outside the Boston Public Library, Saturday, March 2, at 6 pm, in solidarity with people back home, to protest against the severe austerity measures being implemented by Portugal’s center-right government led by Prime Minister Passos Coelho. Protesters in Boston are joining a day of demonstrations which will also […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
26 February 2013
The eighth novel by The New York Times acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences, is the story of Mwanito’s, an African boy’s quest for the truth, struggling to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman’s arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Mozambique, People
25 February 2013
According to the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Language Map, Portuguese is the 12th most spoken language the United States, spoken by 564,630 people after Spanish (28,101,052), Chinese (2,022,143), French (1,643,838), German (1,383,442), Tagalog (1,224,241), Vietnamese (1,009,623), Italian (1,008,370), Korean (894,063), Russian (706,242), Polish (667,414), and Arabic (614,587). Based on the US Census 2000, the MLA […]
Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal
23 February 2013
Portuguese fado vocalist, Ana Moura, is launching her 2013 North American concert tour, on February 28, with a number of concerts scheduled coast to coast in the United States and Canada. The tour is a promotion of her most recent issued CD titled “Desfado” for sale on February 26, 2013. Moura, who has toured the […]
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