23 December 2012
Final celebrations of Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 are underway involving a 48-hour long party through 8pm Sunday. A city of 163,000 inhabitants, Guimarães is also celebrating its 11th year as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the course of the year, the ancient Portuguese city of Guimarães was the official site of the […]
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22 December 2012
Canadian mining company Colt Resources has announced a “new and significant gold find” in the Portuguese region of Évora. “Tests carried out under the Chaminé deposit, within the framework of the Boa Fé concession, prove the existence of gold deposits located hundreds of meters below the surface,” said Nikolas Perrault, Colt Resources Chief Executive Officer […]
21 December 2012
The editors of Fodor’s travel guide publishing named the Azores one of their 25 best places to visit in their GO List for 2013nature, mild climate and European culture of the Azores Islands, just four hours from Boston, make the islands the closest and one of the more affordable destinations in Europe. Accordingly, the unspoiled […]
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20 December 2012
The Faculty of Letters at University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New University of Lisbon, are hosting an International Conference on the Luso-American Experience, titled ”Neither Here nor There, Yet Both,” to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, July11-13, 2013. The Conference aims at becoming a forum on Luso-American […]
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18 December 2012
Portuguese author Nuno Camarneiro, 35, was awarded the 2012 LeYa Prize for his novel Debaixo de algum céu [Under some sky]. The literary prize is worth Euro100,000. More than 270 original works by Portuguese language authors entered the competition. The annual prize, created to distinguish an unpublished work written in Portuguese, was established by the […]
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15 December 2012
Richard Zenith, 56, was awarded the 2012 Pessoa Prize. Zenith was praised for his research and translations of Portuguese Modernist poet Fernando Pessoa. American born, Zenith has become “a citizen of Portugal out of his dedication and commitment to his work, to Fernando Pessoa, to literature, our own, and to a language, Portuguese,” said president […]
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