Celebrate International Museum Day by visiting a museum on the 18th of May. As usual, the day is being promoted by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and will be marked in Portugal by a vast array of initiatives and activities intended to help visitors get to know a museum in a way that is different from normal. This is your opportunity to discover and explore areas of a museum that are not normally open to the public and to take part (...)

As part of its Portugal – Country and Sea campaign, Turihab and Center have launched a new portal for Tourism in the Country accommodation units, bringing together the brands “Solares de Portugal” and “Casas de Campo. ”The portal lists accommodation offerings in the 7 Portuguese tourism regions and has been completely rebuilt with a new, modern image, attractive colours, simple language and facilitating more effective searches. The new portal (...)

Visit eight Lisbon museums stopping at eight metro stationsThe metro is not just the quickest form of transport in Lisbon. It has stops at key points on the route between Rato and the Baixa-Chiado, along which are eight iconic Lisbon museums:- Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (Carmo Archaeological Museum)- Museu do Chiado (Chiado Museum)- Museu da Farmácia (The Pharmacy Museum)- Museu Nacional da História Natural e da Ciência (National Museum of (...)

The Michelin Guide for Spain and Portugal has announced the selection for 2015, where Portugal was distinguished with 17 Michelin stars in 14 Portuguese restaurants. Among the chefs, you will find José Avillez, the first Portuguese person to receive this distinction and who saw two stars being awarded to his restaurant Belcanto, in Lisboa, a city which is also included in the Michelin classification. On this worldwide reference list, there are (...)

Portugal has, in its cultural heritage, a very genuine musical expression, unique in the world, the "Cante Alentejano" (Alentejo Song), now recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Among the 46 candidates for the representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, we have the "Cante Alentejano", the only Portuguese presence in the group of possible classifications for 2014, promoted by the municipality of (...)

A Portuguese artist has, for the first time, been awarded the “Lifetime Achievement” award by the Latin Recording Academy, attributed to Carlos do Carmo, considering him one of the greatest "fado" singers of all time. The Grammy Awards are considered a reference in the music industry and were announced on the 19th of November in Las Vegas, in the United States. Carlos do Carmo receives the recognition in the same year in which he celebrates the (...)