21 January 2012
The city of Braga, the third largest Portuguese city, is the 2012 European Youth Capital, a title awarded to a European city for the period of one year to showcase its youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development. Braga (population of 826,833) provides unique youth field services and facilities for the youth, such […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, World
20 January 2012
Portugal has entered the Guinness Book of World Records with the largest clothes line, an initiative that enabled more than 100,000 pieces of clothing to be collected through donations in six weeks, which will be given to more than 20,000 needy people, The Portugal News reported. A representative from the Guinness Book of World Records […]
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19 January 2012
The Portuguese town of Lourinhã, known for its dinosaur fossils dating back 150 million years, is opening the world’s biggest Jurassic park in the spring of 2013, town councilor Vital do Rosário revealed to the press Wednesday. According to the announcement, the town council of Lourinhã has signed an agreement last week with private partners […]
17 January 2012
A promotional campaign of the Azores as a tourism destination will run for one month, between March 14 and April 11, at the Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain in the Boston area. According to Luisa Schanderl, president of the Azores Tourism Association (ATA), responsible for the initiative, Legal Sea Foods will offer menus featuring products […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Food & Wine, Heritage
16 January 2012
Portuguese American researcher Craig Mello, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine, will be awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa honorary degree, in Biochemistry and Biology, by the University of the Azores in a ceremony to be held January 26. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Craig Mello, is a biologist and a professor of Molecular […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Education, Heritage, People
13 January 2012
The Regional Government of the Azores and environmental organizations condemned what they termed U.S. “interference” lobbying against plans to ban the use of genetically modified organisms (GMO) on the archipelago. A government official in Ponta Delgada, the capital, told LUSA on Thursday, that a recent letter from U.S. Ambassador Allan Katz, pressing Azores’ officials, was […]
