Our office is closed for holidays from December 19th, reopening on January 6th 2025.

The Via do Infante (A22), the Algarve's main motorway, will no longer have tolls from 1st January 2025, after 13 years of public protest since the road became a toll road in 2011.

The new Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles Garden was officially opened this Saturday, December 14th, a large green and leisure space located in the heart of Portimão, which, according to the local authority, “promises to become a reference for socializing and well-being in the city”.

It is perhaps no coincidence that the importance of Portugal’s participation in the European Union has been emphasised in Lisbon this week by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. 

A woman died on Saturday following a home birth, after being transported to Portimão Hospital. Police later found the baby, lifeless, in a room of the house where the woman lived with her husband and two daughters.

On Friday, the GNR seized thousands of litres of fuel and arrested two men aged 24 and 35, and charged a third man, aged 44, with aiding drug trafficking in Santa Luzia, Tavira.

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) have announced that the six dams that supply the Algarve are at 35% of their total water storage capacity, ensuring water supply for another year.

British tourism in Spain is under threat due to the implementation of new safety rules in accommodation, which came into force on December 2nd. These measures require stricter control of tourists' personal data, something that has already generated reactions of discontent in the United Kingdom, the main source market for tourists to Spain.