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atlaslisboa · 2 days ago
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The Week em Breve June 16 to 22
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Police Arrest Six Suspected Neo-Nazis, Including Police Officer Polícia Judiciária (PJ) arrested six suspected neo-nazis who are part of Movimento Armilar Lusitano, considered an armed militia, and seized explosives and firearms, including 3D-printed guns as well as four printers to make…
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atlaslisboa · 20 days ago
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Lisbon's Top Museums for Free: The When and How
Lisbon used to be cheap, including its museums, and some were free every single day, for everyone. That wonderful time has passed for most of us. You can still visit some for free if you’re a member, under 12, or a student, and in some cases if you’re unemployed, or with the tourist-oriented Lisboa Card, which as of June 2025 started at €31 for an adult 24-hour pass. But even without it, you…
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atlaslisboa · 1 month ago
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The week em Breve May 5 to 11
Portuguese Train Strike Goes into Sixth Day Ahead of Elections Commuting will be one more issue on the minds of Portuguese voters as they head into legislative elections on Sunday, May 18. The employees of the nation’s state-owned railway operator Comboios de Portugal (CP) have been on strike since May 7, demanding wages that keep up with cost of living increases, according to news reports.…
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atlaslisboa · 2 months ago
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The Week em Breve April 28 to May 4
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Historic blackout hits Portugal and Spain On April 28, power went down across the Iberian Peninsula, causing disruptions to transport, communications, and businesses across Portugal and Spain. In Lisbon, the blackout lasted about 10 hours and caused the metro, trains, and trams to shut…
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atlaslisboa · 2 months ago
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Lisbon Blackout 2025, Cais do Sodré Style, in Photos
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atlaslisboa · 2 months ago
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The Week em Breve April 21 to 27
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Thousands gather for the Carnation Revolution parade in Lisbon On Friday, Lisboetas came out on the streets to commemorate April 25, 1974, marking the end of the authoritarian right-wing Estado Novo regime. This year, a small number of far-right demonstrators showed up at Largo de São…
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atlaslisboa · 2 months ago
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The Week em Breve April 14 to 20
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Immigration services to give preference to lawyers Got a lawyer to help you with that residency appointment? Apparently, you’ll get preferential treatment if you do, according to Lusa. The Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados – OA) and the Agency of Migration, Integration,…
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atlaslisboa · 3 months ago
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The Lisbon Flight Bag: Surviving 72-Hour Emergencies, and More
Editors’ note: no affiliate links here. If you’d like to support our independent work, you can make a one-time or recurring donation! A few ongoing and imminent events in Europe — a war in Ukraine, devastating floods, earthquakes, the impending Terminator uprising, et al — have many EU governments eager to raise the preparedness of their citizenry. Sweden has issued a booklet, as did Finland,…
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atlaslisboa · 3 months ago
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The Week em Breve March 24 to 30
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Crime statistics are less bad The number of registered criminal offenses in Lisbon went down 7.6% last year, and 4.6% in Portugal overall, according to the 2024 Annual Internal Security Report (Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna de 2024 – RASI) cited by Público. While that may seem…
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atlaslisboa · 3 months ago
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Why Brits are now moving to Portugal instead of Spain | iPaper
In case you didn’t know, iPaper spoke to some foreigners to confirm: more English is spoken here, the taxes on foreigners are gentler, and people are nicer! Read on if you must.
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atlaslisboa · 4 months ago
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This Massachusetts neighborhood feels more Portuguese than Portugal itself
“In Fall River, Massachusetts, a remarkable cultural phenomenon has transformed this former textile mill city into what many consider America’s most authentic Portuguese community,” according to an article on World Day.
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atlaslisboa · 4 months ago
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The Week em Breve Feb 10 to 16
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Faster times for golden visas Those rich enough to have bought their way into Portuguese residency have something to celebrate: processing times are speeding up for golden visa applicants, many of whom have had to wait for months and even years to get their residency status based on…
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atlaslisboa · 5 months ago
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The Week em Breve Jan 20 to Jan 26
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Affordable housing crisis solved: convert rural land to residential The Portuguese parliament shrewdly steered the country out of its affordable housing crisis on Friday when it voted to allow municipalities to make more land available for development. What kind of land? Rural land — a…
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atlaslisboa · 5 months ago
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‘I have no neighbours’: overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit | The Guardian
What it like living in a building where most of the apartments have been converted into short-term rentals for tourists (alojamento local here in Portugal)? Well, one elderly woman Lisbon told The Guardian that when her husband took a fall in their apartment and she wanted to get a neighbor to help lift him, there was no one to ask, so she called the fire brigade. “We should be a kind of social…
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atlaslisboa · 6 months ago
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The Week em Breve Dec 30 to Jan 5
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Lisbon’s Alojamento Local Referendum Barred by Court The transformation of Lisbon into a high-priced heaven for short-term rentals (alojamento local, or AL) continues: Portugal’s Constitutional Court, in a judgment published Friday, has prohibited a planned referendum on AL, questioning…
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atlaslisboa · 6 months ago
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The Week em Breve December 9 to 15
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. World Cup Millions, One Way or the Other Portugal will host the 2030 World Cup, along with Spain and Morocco. Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro cited a study on Wednesday that the biggest football event in the world will bring in between 707 and 859 million euros for the three…
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atlaslisboa · 7 months ago
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Spending less, living longer: What the U.S. can learn from Portugal’s innovative health system | STAT News
“Consider these numbers: Portugal has a life expectancy nearly four years longer than the U.S. despite spending 20% of what the U.S. does on health care per person,” Usha Lee McFarling writes in STAT News.
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