Portugal – love it or leave it

May 15, 2011
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By Nicolau Santos* The title phrase is not mine but an adaptation of the slogan applied to Brazil from propaganda used by the government in the seventies to encourage patriotism. Nevertheless it still holds true. The Portuguese have a tendency for self-inflicted harm that only the Portuguese essayist, philosopher, and writer, Eduardo Lourenço could explain. […]

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Urban Art in Portugal – an interview with Target

May 2, 2011
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In an exclusive interview for bestinPortugal, the artist Target talks about Portuguese Urban Art expressed through his stenciled works and also through spray paintings in graffiti art and gives his point of view on Street Art in Portugal, and more particularly, in Lisbon. You have been doing Street Art since 2005. What was your first […]

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Isabel Jonet – The secret in volunteering is to work as if you were paid

April 17, 2011
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Isabel Jonet is one of the leading figures in the Volunteer work in Portugal, to whom credit is given for the success and reliability of the Banco Alimentar Contra a Fome  (“Food Bank Against Hunger”). The fact that the project Volunteerbook, together with the Facebook page supported by the Volunteer Board, have been chosen by […]

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Philip Graham – author of a travel memoir on Lisbon

April 3, 2011
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An exclusive interview for bestinPortugal with Philip Graham, an American Novelist, short story writer, professor and editor, who lived in Lisbon with his family during one year and wrote “The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon”, a travel memoir that talks not only about Lisbon, but about parenthood as well. Let us start with […]

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Manoel de Oliveira – Directing films after 100

March 27, 2011
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Manoel de Oliveira is a portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. At 102 years of age, the word retirement doesn’t make part of his vocabulary since he is currently the oldest active film director in the world. He has been engaged in directing films since 1931. Besides directing, Mr. Oliveira has put on many […]

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Homens da Luta – the voice of protest

March 13, 2011
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The winds of change are blowing not only in the Muslim world but they are also blowing over Europe as well, and Portugal is no exception. Naturally, the country is a stabilized democracy and its people are gentle mannered, so you don’t expect  them to pick up on arms and carry with a bloody revolution […]

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Portugal – Paradise for Entrepreneurs

February 27, 2011
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I came across this text from a Business Angel who conducts business in Portugal, which shows to all the naysayers and the prophets of doom out there that if it depends on private initiatives, Portugal will not let be down. Portugal – Paradise for Entrepreneurs By Robert Boogaard I get many comments and emails saying […]

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Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown – state of the art research & medical facilities

February 13, 2011
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 When in May 8, 2004 António Champalimauds’ life came to an end, few people knew that this Portuguese industrialist and entrepreneur stipulated in his will an endowment of 500 million euros to create a foundation for the advancement of medical science for Portugal and for the World.  This organization, Champalimaud Foundation, has as an objective, […]

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Paula Rego – Tales of an imaginative artist

January 30, 2011
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Dame Paula Rego is a Portuguese painter, illustrator and printmaker. She is among the main figurative artists working today, creating richly imaginative art rooted in memories, fantasy, literature, art history, and direct observation. She was born in Lisbon in 1935, the sole child to a prosperous, middle-class family, under the Salazar dictatorship, which would later […]

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Douro Vinhateiro – A land of fine wines

January 16, 2011
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The Douro Vinhateiro is an area of approximately 26’000 hectares (64’250 acres) in the Douro Valley in Portugal, which has been classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2001. It is sheltered by mountain ranges from coastal influence, making the soil appropriate for wines of very good quality. This region is centered around […]

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