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The Avenida Marginal dual carriageway at Estoril, with palm trees on the central reservation, buses at a stop and the seafront buildings of Cascais beyond

Residents Clocked 220 km/h on the Marginal's 50 km/h Limit, and Their Petition for Radars Has Passed 1,700 Names

A Cascais residents' association wants speed cameras, coordinated policing and fines of €1,000 to €2,000 on the coastal road from Lisbon. Hours before they described the campaign, a car left the EN6 at Praia da Parede and a man of about 50 was found dead on the rocks.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

The Castelo de Bode reservoir on the Zezere in central Portugal, still blue water between wooded banks with a concrete water intake tower standing mid-channel

Quercus Opposes Renewing the Panasqueira Mine Licence, Citing More Than a Century of Waste Above Lisbon's Water Supply

The public consultation on a revised environmental licence for Portugal's only working tungsten mine closed on Monday. Quercus filed against it, arguing the file cannot support a decision and that the catchment runs down to the reservoir EPAL treats for 2.6 million people.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

The long underground concourse at Cais do Sodre metro station in Lisbon, with parallel moving walkways, a lit ceiling strip and Saida signs for Avenida 24 de Julho and Praca Duque de Terceira

Escalators at Cais do Sodré Have Been Broken for 2,500 Days Because Two State Companies Cannot Agree Who Owns Them

Metro figures cover 234 escalators, 133 lifts and 10 travelators across 46 stations. February 2026 was the worst month yet, with 38 lifts and 40 escalators stopped at once. One set at Cais do Sodré has not moved since 2019, stranded by a dispute with Infraestruturas de Portugal.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

Aerial view over Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina looking down Rua Augusta towards Rossio, with the ironwork of the Santa Justa lift in the foreground and terracotta rooftops on both sides

With the Bank of Portugal Bound for Entrecampos, Lisbon's Baixa Loses the Last of Its Financial Quarter

Fidelidade occupies its new Entrecampos head office in September, and the central bank's 1,400 Lisbon staff follow onto the same old Feira Popular site. The building deal was cut from two blocks at EUR 192 million to one at EUR 165.7 million. The tesouraria and the Money Museum stay downtown.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

The Estadio Jose Gomes in Reboleira, Amadora, before a Liga Portugal fixture, with the green, red and white stand behind the pitch

Three Months After Asking Creditors to Forgive 90 Percent of Its Debt, Estrela da Amadora's Holding Company Sells for About €40 Million

Lusa reports that a German investment group counting Thomas Muller, Yann Sommer and Mats Hummels among its investors has agreed to buy the SAD, with Johannes Mosmang as president and Paulo Lopo stepping down. In May the club was in the Sintra court seeking a haircut on €25 million.

The Portugal Brief 23 Aug 2026

Visitors tasting Portuguese wine at the D'Oliveiras tasting hall in Funchal, seated at barrel-top tables in front of shelves of vintage-labelled bottles

Seventy-Two Countries Send Sommeliers to Lisbon in October, and the Portuguese Trade Wants Them Selling Quality Over Volume

The ASI Best Sommelier of the World runs in Lisbon from 11 to 17 October, with competitors from 72 markets and more than 3,500 people expected. Portuguese wine grew 1.1% by volume last year while imports fell 18.4%, and the sector says value is the only route left.

The Portugal Brief 23 Aug 2026

A mossy granite stairway climbing through dense woodland and lichen-covered boulders in the Serra de Sintra, at the Convento dos Capuchos

Parques de Sintra Now Employs Five Men Who First Cleared Its Hillsides as Prisoners, and Three of Them Run Teams

The state company manages 1,000 hectares of the serra under protocols with the DGRSP that let inmates in open regime work outside. Five more are on the scheme now. Nationwide, only 158 of roughly 10,000 people serving sentences hold open-regime approval.

The Portugal Brief 23 Aug 2026

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