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The granite keep and crenellated curtain wall of the Castelo de Guimarães seen from below on the grass, with a visitor standing on the wall walk between the merlons.

Paulo Portas Gains Four Names for Portugal's 900th Anniversary, and the Programme for the First Three Years Is Due by December

A museums chief, a publisher, a financier and a writer make up the executive commission named on Friday. The first landmark is the 900th anniversary of the Battle of São Mamede on 24 June 2028, and no budget figure came with the announcement.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

The Palácio de São Bento in Lisbon, seat of the Assembleia da República, its white neoclassical colonnade framed by jacaranda branches in purple flower along the street in front.

Portugal's Data Regulator Opened a Fast Lane This Week for Reporting Images of Children Shared Without Consent

The CNPD put its Canal Prioritário online on Tuesday and announced it on Thursday. Reports in three categories are treated as urgent, anyone can file one, and the regulator can order material taken down as a precaution.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

Stone and schist houses packed tightly on a steep hillside in the village of Piódão in central Portugal, with slate roofs, blue painted doors and washing hung out between them.

A Six-Country Survey Finds One in Five in Portugal Cannot Pay for the Energy They Need, and Its League Table Looks Nothing Like the Official One

Researchers at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Fraunhofer IAO put Portugal at 19 percent, second worst of six countries. On Eurostat's official measure, refreshed on Thursday, Portugal is the worst of the six but Poland is the best.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

A PSP police station in Nazare, a low modern building with the blue and white POLICIA sign on the corner and a marked patrol car parked at the kerb

Portugal's Summer Policing Operation Ended With 7,214 Arrests, and the Commonest Ticket Was for a Phone in the Driver's Hand

Drink-driving and driving unlicensed came within one arrest of each other. Of 60,420 penalty notices, 11,730 were for using a mobile at the wheel.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

A Portuguese public health centre in Rio Maior, Santarem district, a low white and blue-trimmed building with a pitched glazed section and cars parked outside

The Health Regulator Has 368 Beauty Clinics Queued for Inspection and Has Managed 223 Since 2023

Two establishments were shut down in the first half of this year, both over people performing medical procedures they are not qualified to perform. Those files go to the prosecutor.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

The Teatro Nacional D. Maria II on Lisbon's Rossio square, its columned neoclassical facade behind the bronze fountain and the wave-patterned calcada paving

Portugal's National Theatre Reopens on the Rossio This Weekend With Free Tickets and the Play That Was On Stage When It Burned

Three years closed, 15.1 million euros of recovery-plan money, and a Macbeth that deliberately echoes the night of 2 December 1964. Entry is free until Sunday.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

An Alentejo landscape in late summer, dry golden pasture with scattered cork oaks and grazing cattle, and a block of vineyard and olive groves on the rise behind

What Farmers Pay for Fertiliser and Fuel Is Rising Again, and the Bill Arrives With the Next Harvest

EU farm input prices rose 4.7 percent in the second quarter while what farmers were paid fell 5.8 percent. Portugal had the gentlest increase in the Union and will not be spared the result.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

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