22 March 2011
Ericeira beach resort, off the coast of central Portugal, was named the first surf reserve in Europe by the international organization Save the Waves. The distinction is an international recognition for efforts in the preservation of natural resources. Save the Wabes also named Ericeira, along with Santa Cruz Beach in California, the two top world surfing reserves. […]
22 March 2011
Lisbon is one of the most affordable cities in Western Europe, revealed figures from the Hotel Price Index, compiled from bookings made through Hotels.com, one of the world’s largest booking websites for 130,000 hotels around the world. The numbers revealed that in 2010 a 5-star hotel room in Lisbon would cost €83, while in Warsaw, Poland, […]
22 March 2011
Portuguese software developing companies will be featured at the “Plug and Play Tech Center” at Silicon Valley home to many of the world’s largest technology corporations, after a group of Portuguese start-up entrepreneurs toured Silicon Valley looking for partnerships. In Portugal the AICEP Portugal Global has launched the “Portugal Innovate With Us” initiative aimed at […]
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22 March 2011
The art-film “Mists” (Brumas) (2003), will be featured on April 6, at the Cable Car Cinema & Café, 204 South Main Street, Providence, RI, sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. “Mists” is a Portuguese language production directed by filmmaker Ricardo Costa. The film premiered at the 60th Venice Film Festival (2003) and […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Entertainment, Film
22 March 2011
Portuguese Chef Carlos Braz Lopes is now world renown for his famous invention – the Best Chocolate Cake in the World – an idea that started as a joke in 2002, when Chef Lopes was noticed by his Lisbon neighborly clients for a chocolate cake that – “voilá” – tasted different from the rest. The […]
Posted in Food & Wine, People, World
22 March 2011
The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth are launching “Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections,” a book by João Leal. The author has done extensive research on Holy Ghost Festivals in the Azores and in […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Conferences, Heritage
