News, culture, and events from Portugal's capital city.
Your weekly roundup from the capital: a court lets one tent stay on the Rossio and Moedas orders the camp to make way for the Christmas market, weekend trains return to Alcântara-Terra in December, and fares can rise up to 2.66 percent.
The PSP searched a Ryanair plane in Lisbon on Friday after a bomb threat and found nothing. Observador reports that two TAP flights to Paris and Copenhagen were also threatened mid-air, on an FBI warning. Every threat so far has been a hoax.
Lisbon's mayor told the Rossio housing camp to move to São Domingos, Martim Moniz or the Restauradores. Renata Cambra says that defies the ruling letting her stay until 24 November. Most Lisbon detainees choose trial, and Porto sets 13 November for its ice rink.
CP brings back Saturday, Sunday and holiday trains between Alcântara-Terra and Castanheira do Ribatejo with the 2027 timetable: hourly from 06:26, last train 21:39, and Marvila served again. The ministry cites strong weekend demand on the Azambuja line.
Lisbon's São José Hospital has a new 30-bed unit in its main A&E for patients waiting for a ward bed, plus three doctors, 19 nurses and 12 other staff. Observation rooms rise from five to 14, and 58 patients used the beds in three days.
Lisbon's housing camp voted 163 to 6 to pitch tents on the Rossio again on Tuesday and to meet President Seguro. Porto protesters raised 14 tents after 00:30. The Council of State's official note made no mention of the protests.
Because a Lisbon judge refused to apply part of the 1974 protest law on constitutional grounds, prosecutors must appeal to the Constitutional Court. What the judges can decide, why one ruling would not scrap the 00:30 rule, and Monday's other developments.
