Algarve Daily News17h agoPortimão housing protesters invite Algarvians to pitch tents in town hall square this weekend
Housing rights campaigners are set to pitch camp in Portimão’s Praça do Município on Saturday, 7 November, from 6pm. The event will be host to cultural activities, a community kitchen, and a people’s assembly. It builds on the movement’s first assembly, held on 1 November.
Algarve Daily News17h ago87-year-old man dies in Portimão Hospital following 12 hours in waiting room: health watchdog to investigate
Portugal’s health inspectorate, the Inspeção-Geral das Atividades em Saúde (IGAS), is set to open an inquiry into the death of an elderly man who died in the early hours of Wednesday, 4 November, while waiting to be seen in the A&E department at Portimão Hospital.
Algarve Daily News17h agoFaro weighs future of Fábrica da Cerveja community hub, as musicians’ association prepares to leave the building vacant
Faro Council is to study the best future for the Fábrica da Cerveja, the old beer brewery in the city’s historic centre, with it now becoming clear that the Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos (ARCM), the only remaining permanent tenant group of the building, will indeed have to leave. The council is undecided
Algarve Daily News2d agoAlgarve’s water bosses in emergency talks after Albufeira mayor orders shutdown on desalination construction, despite sitting on company’s own board
Águas do Algarve has summoned its board for an emergency meeting at 9am on Thursday, 5 November, after Albufeira Town Hall, chaired by Chega party mayor Rui Cristina, ordered a partial stop to work on the Algarve’s long-awaited desalination plant. Cristina sits on the Águas do Algarve board overseeing the desalination
Algarve Daily News2d agoIs Portugal sacrificing the Algarve’s rural communities to the same short-term rental investors that ate up the holiday mecca’s coastline?
When the impact of short-term rentals (STRs, locally known as Alojamento Local, or AL) on housing in Portugal is discussed, the debate tends to focus on Lisbon and Porto. This has been seen in recent weeks with the housing encampments, which have incensed a nationwide debate on the outrageous costs of buying or renting
Algarve Daily News3d ago“We are not the Algarve’s rubbish furnace”: Loulé mayor warns local cement maker CIMPOR, following concerns over sneaky plans
CIMPOR has insisted it is not involved in any plan to build a controversial waste-burning incinerator in the Algarve, and that it has not made any contacts or enquiries to that end. The cement maker issued the clarification in a statement on Tuesday, 3 November. It came after Loulé mayor Telmo Pinto voiced his oppositi
Algarve Daily News3d agoTavira weighs up 173-acre solar farm planned for Cachopo hills, involving felling of over 500 trees
Residents and other interested parties have until 9 December to have their say on plans for a large solar farm in the hills above Cachopo, in the municipality of Tavira. The proposed 173-acre site in the Serra do Caldeirão would see 527 holm oaks and a cork oak felled, with 1,368 holm oaks planted in compensation.
Algarve Daily News3d agoLisbon flight hit by bomb threat, as similar concerns ground seven planes across Europe in 48 hours
At least seven passenger flights have been targeted by bomb threats or security alerts over the past two days, prompting authorities in Portugal, Poland, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, and Hungary to spring into action. Among the aircraft involved were two Ryanair flights bound for Rome, one of which had taken off from Lisbon
Algarve Daily News4d agoPolice continue to beat housing protesters in Lisbon and Porto, as court rules in favour of tent encampments
The Lisbon Administrative Court ruled on Sunday, 1 November, that the 12.30am cut-off for demonstrations is not “absolute and automatic”, allowing a protester to stay overnight in Rossio, in Lisbon, with a tent.
Algarve Daily News4d agoGNR arrest 13 men and one child at Albufeira beach as part of drug trafficking raid, with 200 jerrycans of fuel seized
A GNR operation on Monday, 2 November, ended with around 200 jerrycans of fuel seized at São Rafael beach, in Albufeira. Thirteen people were detained, one of them a child, according to the Jornal de Notícias newspaper.
Algarve Daily News4d agoCelebration of modernist architecture arrives in Olhão and Tavira, as Modernist Weekend slips the bounds of Faro for first time
The Modernist Weekend, an event celebrating Faro’s modernist architecture, is leaving the capital of the Algarve for the first time. Its fifth edition, set to take place from 6 to 8 November, will stretch to Olhão and Tavira, the organisers have announced.
Algarve Daily News30 OctSilves gears up for the ‘Impossible Climb’, as 30 riders take on a near-vertical hill
Thirty Portuguese and Spanish riders will take on a 110-metre hillside, with gradients of more than 80% in places, at the 23rd Subida Impossível (Impossible Climb) competition, which returns to Silves on 8 November.
Algarve Daily News30 OctAlbufeira mayor orders halt to desalination plant works, but minister refuses to take part in ‘political games’
Rui Cristina, mayor of Albufeira, has ordered a halt to work on the desalination plant being built near Rocha Baixinha beach. However, the Environment Minister insisted this Friday, 30 October, that “not a single machine has stopped” and that she will not take part in “political games”.
Algarve Daily News30 OctPortugal moves to permanently ban chaining pets or keeping them on balconies
Portugal’s parliament has approved new animal welfare rules that prohibit keeping animals permanently chained or on balconies, and regulate the use of devices designed to restrain and train pets.
Algarve Daily News30 OctAlentejo village mourns local who was killed while working on train in Spain’s Toledo rail disaster
Manuel Luís Nunes, president of the parish council of Vila Nova de São Bento, in the Alentejo municipality of Serpa, confirmed on Friday that the Portuguese national killed in the Spanish rail disaster was in fact a native of the rural Beja village.
Algarve Daily News29 Oct‘A bridge over the Guadiana and a train to Seville by 2040’: Algarve representatives arrive at Spain-Portugal summit with big demands for the region
Representatives from the Algarve have arrived at a Portuguese-Spanish meeting in Tordesillas, Valladolid, bringing with them three requests: a bridge over the River Guadiana linking Alcoutim and Sanlúcar de Guadiana, a rail link from Faro to both Huelva and Seville by 2040, and closer co-operation on the management of
Algarve Daily News29 OctPortimão takes on vandals with a campaign to protect its 16th-century stonework
Portimão Council is set to launch an awareness campaign in the hopes of deterring vandals targeting the Manueline stonework of the old Quinta dos Morais, now on display in the Jardim Ribeiro Telles, beside the Municipal Market. The pieces date back to the 16th century. They have been repeatedly daubed, scrawled on, and
Algarve Daily News28 OctCrooked former Algarve mayor and ex-MP go on trial in Faro on corruption charges: ‘Cabrita received €10,000 per month in cash’
Former Vila Real de Santo António mayor Conceição Cabrita and former MP António Gameiro went on trial at Faro Court on Monday, 26 October, accused of passive corruption, the legal term for accepting a bribe. Cabrita admitted receiving money from a local businessman, but described it as a “loan” which she hoped to use i
Algarve Daily News28 OctPortimão Marina named Southern Europe’s best for the second year running
Portimão Marina has been crowned “Best Marina in Southern Europe” for the second year in a row at the World Luxury Travel Awards 2026, an international competition celebrating the luxury tourism sector. The accolade serves to recognise the quality of its winner’s services and infrastructure, as well as the overall expe
Algarve Daily News27 Oct‘Portugal’s blocked generation need housing solutions’ urges President Seguro, as violent tensions between police and protestors continue
President António José Seguro has called for urgent answers to Portugal’s housing crisis, warning that it is leaving young people stuck in a “blocked generation”. He also urged dialogue between campaign groups and parliamentarians, rejecting any sort of incitement of violence at protests.
Algarve Daily News27 OctAlgarve ‘well on track’ to host Dakar Rally in 2027, says tourism chief
The president of Turismo do Algarve says everything is “well on track” for the region to host the prologue and the start of the first stage of the Dakar Rally in 2027.
Algarve Daily News27 OctAlgarve hosts Portugal’s forestry experts in Alcoutim to sharpen wildfire prevention
The Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL) brought forestry specialists from across the country to Alcoutim last week, on 22 and 23 October, for the third National Meeting of Intermunicipal Forestry Technical Offices. The aim was to strengthen cooperation between organisations and thrash out strategies for forest mana
Algarve Daily News26 OctProtestors gather in Faro, fighting back against police violence at housing encampments in Lisbon and Porto
More than 100 people gathered in Faro’s Praça da Liberdade on Sunday, 25 October, to protest against the police handling of the housing protest camps, or acampadas, in Lisbon and Porto. Participants condemned the undue violence used against peaceful demonstrators seeking to defend the right to housing, freedom, and dem
Algarve Daily News26 OctOlhão: Witness to alleged police killing of Moroccan immigrant tells court he cannot remember the assault due to drug use
The friend of a Moroccan man who died in Olhão in 2024 has told a court he has no memory of the assaults allegedly carried out by two PSP (Public Security Police) officers, who are now on trial for aggravated homicide.