Tag: Portugal

• How Lisbon put itself on the map for real estate and tourism – and became Europe’s least affordable city | Agustín Cocola-Gant | The Guardian

  June 25, 2025

  Tourists stay in short-term rentals and foreigners buy second homes, while residents of the city rent rooms, not apartments, says researcher Agustín Cocola-Gant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/lisbon-europe-portugal-golden-visa-capital-investors-short-term-rentals more ›

• April 7, 2024

  https://www.esquerda.net/dossier/guerra-colonial-na-literatura-e-cinema/63741 more ›

• ‘Violent colonialist’ Magellan is unfit to keep his place in the night sky, say astronomers

  November 15, 2023

  For centuries Ferdinand Magellan has been accorded a rare privilege. The explorer’s name has been written in the stars. Two satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way, which sparkle conspicuously… more ›

• Luxury homes, short lets and shacks: inside Lisbon’s housing crisis

  December 26, 2021

  Manuela Lopes dates her misfortune from the moment her Lisbon neighbourhood began attracting comparisons with Brooklyn. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/luxury-homes-short-lets-and-shacks-inside-lisbons-housing-crisis more ›

• Indigenous peoples guard ‘the lungs of the planet’ for all of us

  April 3, 2021

  The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›

• Portugal must do more to confront colonial past, says Council of Europe

  March 24, 2021

  Europe’s top human rights body has called on Portugal to do more to confront its colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight… more ›

• How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’

  March 15, 2021

  There has been little acknowledgment of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now. As a wet winter gives way to spring, Lisbon’s Campo das Cebolas square is… more ›

• The hottest startups in Lisbon

  August 22, 2019

  A decommissioned power station, a 15th century convent and former bread and pasta factories are part of the 20-building complex in the east Lisbon neighbourhood of Beato that’s currently being… more ›

• Lisbon’s Overtourism Lesson: Living Like a Local…

  June 1, 2018

  Lisbon’s Overtourism Lesson: Living Like a Local Is Not Enough » Skift Senior Research Analyst Rebecca Stone is traveling the globe over the next year as part of Remote Year,… more ›

• Gala da Liberdade, Escola de Boxe João Faleiro /…

  May 3, 2016

  Gala da Liberdade, Escola de Boxe João Faleiro / #boxinglisboa / #boxe / #culturaurbana / #boxing / #Portugal / by boxinglisboa more ›