Be­hind the train line, near Faro sta­tion, there is an old carob bean fact­ory which is being re­vital­ised. It is called «Fábrica dos Sen­tidos» (Fact­ory of the Senses) and it is a com­munity space like never be­fore seen in the Al­garve. An art centre […] »

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Can you ima­gine a place where there is no traf­fic, no pol­lu­tion, and where in­stead con­struct­ing houses from ce­ment, they are made out of clay, wood or even bundles of hay? Where the heat of the sun is used to pro­duce elec­tric and mech­an­ical en­ergy […] »

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The “Comis­são de Utentes da Via do In­fante” (CUVI) (Users of the Via do In­fante Co­mis­sion) this sum­mer, are going to hold a ser­ies of ac­tions against the tolls on the A22. The first one will be on Fri­day the 21st June, “This gov­ern­ment doesn’t care […] »

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Ac­cord­ing to the GNR, by May of this year, and in com­par­ison with the same time last year, ag­gress­ive and severe crimes had risen by about 10%. The main in­crease being in vi­ol­ent rob­ber­ies car­ried out in people’s homes. However, the re­cent de­ten­tion […] »

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The build­ing «Aus­tral», con­struc­ted over a wa­ter­line in Quarteira, con­tin­ues to lean more and more over the street below – and if noth­ing is done to sta­bil­ise it and straighten it out, this 8 flour build­ing, aptly named the Al­garvean “Tower of Pisa” […] »

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A group of small and me­dium busi­nesses con­nec­ted with the move­ment «Deix­em-nos res­pirar» (let us breath), re­cently got to­gether in Estôm­bar, to dis­cuss the prob­lems with the new “guia de trans­port” (de­liv­ery note) reg­u­la­tions – a method they con­sider […] »

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Last Sat­urday, 15th June, the gene­a­lo­gist and ed­itor Nuno Cam­pos Iná­cio, re­ceived a team of journ­al­ist from the main TV sta­tion of the Arab World, Al-Jaz­eera, at his home in Por­timão. “They had been look­ing for Victor Borges’ work about Is­lamic Sil­ves, […] »

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The North Amer­ican Estate agent Kennedy Wilson is going to hold an auc­tion next week of 42 lux­ury apart­ments in the Lusort, in Vil­am­oura. This will be a “unique ex­er­cise in Por­tugal”, and will be lead by the “Kennedy Wilson auc­tion group, leader […] »

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With sum­mer at the door and the rising tem­per­at­ures, the risk of forest fires in­crease in the Al­garve. That is why the Brit­ish vice con­su­late, in Por­timão, is or­gan­ising a sem­inar in Eng­lish to in­form the Brit­ish com­munity about fire pre­ven­tion and […] »

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