08 September 2022
SATA Azores Airlines announced it will launch a new air connection, staring November 3, 2022, between Madeira (FNC) and New York (JFK), available weekly, year-round, in partnership with the Madeira Promotion Association. The route will be operated on Airbus A321neo aircraft with a capacity of 190 seats during the winter season. “After performing, for the […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Travel, World
06 September 2022
In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active, consequential decades of European overseas expansion. Blackmore understands “literary” in a broad sense, including a diverse archive spanning genres and disciplines—epic and lyric poetry, historical chronicles, nautical documents, ship logs, shipwreck narratives, geographic […]
Posted in Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, Travel, World
02 September 2022
The number of Americans visiting Portugal has significantly increased, the National Statistics Institute (INE) has reported. In July, of a total of 1.8 million foreigners who sought mainland Portugal as a tourism destination, visitors from the United States occupy the third position among 17 top countries. The record number of US tourists in Portugal comes […]
29 August 2022
The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) announced it has established an Advisory Council to guide and counsel its Board of Directors, propose new programs, and assess current programs. “This Advisory Council will assist in furthering the PALCUS mission, giving the Portuguese-American community an even more audible voice and a more […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People
28 August 2022
Based on exclusive interviews with the United Nations Secretary-General himself, this is the first book to explain how António Guterres thinks and operates, in an era of renewed great power competition and rising nationalism. The UN leader was re-elected for a second term starting in 2022; yet, after five years in the job, Guterres’ discreet […]
Posted in Books, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
27 August 2022
Throughout the year, until November 2022, Portugal and many other countries, are celebrating the centenary of the birth of José Saramago, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), with an ongoing extensive program of events. According to the award committee, Saramago, “who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
