PORTIMÃO CELEBRATES 90 YEARS AS A CITY
Music, theatre, sports, literature and citizenship all featured heavily in the programme that aimed to celebrate Portimão’s 90 years as a city. The official anniversary may have been on December 11, but celebrations took place over a fortnight and marked a number of other milestones within the city. The programme, which “aimed to evoke the past, celebrate the present and, above all, look to the future, giving...
New Book Launched on Birds of the Algarve
‘Birds of Algarve’ is a book published in 2014 by German biologist Manfred Temme. The 256-page volume, features beautiful images and descriptions in both English and German of 190 of the 250 (approximate) bird species recorded in the Algarve. The idea of the book arose from the interest shown by readers of the Algarve’s German-language magazine Entdecken Sie Algarve, in its monthly articles by Dr. Manfred Temme, an accomplished...
CÔRTE-REAL COMES TO CARVOEIRO
ONE OF THE ALGARVE’S BEST ART GALLERIES NOW HAS A POP-UP EXHIBITION IN THE CENTRE OF TOWN Set in the hills just outside Paderne, in the beautiful countryside north of Albufeira, those in search of the striking artworks on display at Côrte-Real would usually have to set aside a whole morning or afternoon to fully enjoy this picture-perfect gallery. But thanks to one local estate agent, a sample of the gallery’s...
A WILD APPETITE
FORAGING IN THE ALGARVE COUNTRYSIDE, INSIDE DISCOVERS A WEALTH OF DELICACIES FREE FOR THE PICKING Most people living here in the Algarve can forget that the countryside is steeped in the bounties of nature, and many venture little beyond the abundant wild thyme that grows on the cliff-tops near Carvoeiro. Our guide into the depths of the Portuguese countryside was to be Raoul Van Den Broucke, a Flemish foraging expert who spent 20...
TOUCHDOWN
THE NEWLY FORMED ALGARVE PIRATES PREPARE FOR THE NEW SEASON In a country with a long football tradition, how easy would it be to form a team in a sport that many had only seen on American television? Well one man tried, and it seems that the answer is, quite easy. American Don Dixon, who was assistant coach for the Lisbon Crusaders and who helped form the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Americano just three years ago, has now brought...
