23 July 2023
The World Youth Day event is about to bring a week of joy to Lisbon – but maybe some chaos as well. Local authorities and services have prepared as best they can, but it is impossible to be sure that everything will go according to plan. Hundreds of thousands of young people, including many from […]
21 July 2023
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off on Thursday, July 20, with Portugal and the Netherlands playing in the first round on July 23 and with Vietnam on July 27. Another exciting match will be Portugal facing the United States on Tuesday, August 1, at 3:00 AM (ET) in Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand. […]
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21 July 2023
The Portuguese passport has once again been ranked 5th in the world, allowing its holders entry into 187 countries, according to the ‘Henley Passport Index: Q3 2023 Global Ranking’. In terms of passport power, this places Portugal alongside six countries like Belgium, the Czech Republic, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland. However, the most powerful […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World
14 July 2023
The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionable. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals all make clear these voyages’ long-term global significance. Navigations reexamines these Portuguese quests by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages […]
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10 July 2023
A study sponsored by Lisbon-based, Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD), has revealed new facts and statistics about the Portuguese immigrant community and their descendants in the United States. The study, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), provides a current demographic and socioeconomic profile of the Portuguese American community by […]
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07 July 2023
The Relic tells the story of an orphaned young man, Teodorico Raposo, who is brought to Lisbon from a provincial town in Portugal to live with his aunt, a rigid, stern―and oftentimes―forbidding Catholic. Her devout circle of acquaintances is made up almost entirely of priests, many of whom are more concerned with appearances than spirituality, […]
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