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  The festival has got international recognition for its sustainability efforts. Boom Festival is held biannually in Idanha-a-Nova since 1997 and takes place during the full moon. The Boomland consists of festival structures and sculptures merging seamlessly and using natural materials and permaculture techniques. To be considered for an AGF award, festivals must undergo a […]

  2018 is the year with the greatest increase of inventions in Portugal. It is in the top three European countries registering the greatest increase in requests for patents for new inventions. Products ranged from new electrocardiograms to subaquatic communications masts and solutions for transforming toxic by-products of olive oil for use in agriculture. The […]

  Irish low-cost Ryanair is going to launch 15 new routes to and from Portugal: four from Lisbon, eight from Porto and three from Faro. New destinations are: Budapest, Alicante, and London Southend. Ryanair has carried around 60 million people to and from Portugal since it started operating here in 2003. To get information how […]

  Next season of the world’s most watched television series on wines will be recorded in Portugal. The first two seasons took place in Italy and France. This time the focus will be mainly on Port and Madeira wines. The series, which sees actors Matthew Goode and James Purefoy sampling some of the world’s best […]

  This week skygazers in parts of Portugal were lucky to watch the astronomical spectacle of a “super blood wolf moon”. The rare phenomenon, caused in part by a lunar eclipse, makes the surface of the moon appear a reddish hue while seeming brighter and closer to earth than normal. To get information how to […]

  According to a decree which was published in the Government Gazette Azores islands of Corvo, Flores, Graciosa, Santa Maria and Terceira will no longer issue new licenses for whale watching tourism. Whale-watching is one of the Azores’ most famous and popular excursions. New licenses will to be suspended in ‘Zone C’ – which includes […]

  Portugal’s ministry of finance told taht the government proposed to update minimum salaries for civil servants from €580 to €635.07 in 2019. The salary increase in 2019 is expected to cover around 70,000 civil servants and could cost €50 million. To get information how to get Residence permit In Portugal and Portuguese Citizenship – […]

  Cristiano Ronaldo and Jorge Mendes have become candidates to the Globe Soccer Awards 2018. The Portuguese captain is running for the title of best player of the year. The Globe Soccer Awards will take place on January, 3 in Dubai. To get information how to get Residence permit In Portugal and Portuguese Citizenship – […]

  The beginning of 2019 will be followed by rising prices in Portugal. According to the government – there will be just one exception: the cost of electricity which will drop for most consumers. The Lisbon Municipal Assembly meanwhile approved the doubling of the capital’s Tourist Tax. The tax will now rise from its current […]

  A European consortium has been created to monitor space. Portugal’s participation was formalized this week and announced by the Ministry of Defence. An operations centre for the project named European Space Surveillance and Tracking will be created in the Azores. It’s aim is to look out for objects orbiting near earth, which could pose […]