22 June 2022
SATA Azores Airlines has launched this week, starting June 20, its first seasonal direct weekly flight between Lages, Terceira Island, Azores, and New York (JFK). The Terceira-New York route will be available on Mondays, between until September 5, 2022. Accordingly, on Tuesday, the first 174 passengers disembarked at Lajes Airport, bound for several Azores islands. […]
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20 June 2022
The Archaeology of Roman Portugal aims to contribute to the wider debate on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a much-underrepresented area of the Roman empire, at least in English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day Portugal. Highlighting the perspective from Roman Portugal will contribute to our understanding of the Roman empire, […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World
12 June 2022
By Len Port Summer has arrived with a vengeance. On top of the drought during our normally wet winter, Portugal has been unusually hot, and both the drought and the recent heat seem set to worsen. The drought began in November 2021. The resulting low levels in the reservoirs have severely impeded hydroelectric power generation […]
10 June 2022
Google Doodle has once again added June 10th – Day of Portugal – to its list of dates to celebrate with all honors. For the occasion, this year Google Doodle honors the Sobreiro, the National Tree of Portugal. The following is how the search engine site describes the tribute: “Happy Portugal Day or Dia de […]
10 June 2022
Portugal is celebrating today, the 10th of June – “Day of Portugal” – with a public holiday, while multiple celebrations are taking place across the world in the Portuguese diaspora. In the United States the occasion is marked, coast to coast, by major festivities and cultural events. In Canada, on June 10th, where many cultural […]
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08 June 2022
World renowned painter, Paula Rego, one of the most internationally acclaimed and awarded Portuguese artists, died this Wednesday morning in London, aged 87. Born in 1935 in Lisbon, into an affluent family, Paula Rego was sent to a British finishing school and studied at the London’s prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Later she acquired […]
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