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News and developments from Porto, Portugal's second city.

A silver CP suburban train with red door panels standing at platform 2 of Roma-Areeiro station in Lisbon under a clear blue sky

The 20-Euro Green Rail Pass Missed Its Mobility Week Date on Lisbon and Porto Commuter Trains, and Fertagus May Wait Until December

The ministry had promised the Passe Ferroviário Verde on CP's urban lines between 16 and 22 September. The decree is still awaiting promulgation, the minister now says October, and the Setúbal line has no firm date.

The Portugal Brief 23 Sep 2026

The Paços do Concelho city hall at the head of the Avenida dos Aliados in Porto

The Porto Brief, Week of 20 September 2026: The VCI Lorry Ban Draws 27 Infractions in 48 Hours, Parking Is Next, and Two Sites Bought for Mosques Find No Bidder

The PSP counted 27 infractions in the lorry ban's first 48 hours on the VCI, Pedro Duarte says a new parking policy lands before the year is out, and both mosque-site auctions went deserted. Plus five runners still in hospital, a fire on the Aliados and tonight's clássico.

The Portugal Brief 20 Sep 2026

Traffic on the Via de Cintura Interna in Porto beneath blue overhead motorway signs for IC1 to Matosinhos and the airport and IC23 to the Ponte do Freixo

A Week Into Porto's Lorry Ban on the VCI, the Council Counts Traffic and the Hauliers Count Kilometres

Twenty-seven tickets in the first three days, detours of up to 57 kilometres on some runs, and a mobility councillor who says he is measuring the policy by accidents that do not happen.

The Portugal Brief 20 Sep 2026

Porto Tenders 2.4 Million Euros for a Cycle Route to Matosinhos, and Roughly a Fifth of It Shares the Road With Cars

Nine point one kilometres from the Trindade metro station to Leça do Balio, in two lots that may go to different contractors. Bids close at midnight on 31 October.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

The Praca da Republica in Braga at dusk, with the lit baroque facade of the Igreja da Lapa above the arcaded Arcada and cafe umbrellas reflected in the water

Eighty-Three of the North's Eighty-Six Councils Drew In More People Than They Lost, and the Region Added 187,191 Residents in Four Years

A CCDR-N bulletin published on Tuesday puts northern Portugal's population at 3,790,554 in 2025, up 5.2 percent since 2021 after a decade of decline. Net migration of 235,170 did the work; the natural balance stayed 48,000 in the red.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The decayed stone facade and ironwork balconies of the abandoned Caldas de Moledo hotel in the Douro valley, with plants growing from the balcony ledges.

An Abandoned Thermal Spa Above the Douro Reopens This Year on Four Million Euros, and One of Its Two Bath Houses Will Stay in Public Use

The Termas das Caldas de Moledo, between Peso da Régua and Mesão Frio inside the Alto Douro Vinhateiro world heritage landscape, become the seventeenth thermal facility in the Porto and North region. The rest of the complex goes to a REVIVE concession.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The neoclassical granite block of the Hospital de Santo Antonio in Porto seen from a street corner, its pediment topped by a stone statue against a clear sky

Porto's Santo Antonio Scheduled 193 Extra Operating Programmes for September, and Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery Received None of Them

The northern doctors' union says an internal circular cuts additional surgical production to about a third of the usual volume. Official data put 7,835 patients on the unit's surgical waiting list in June, 1,378 of them past the guaranteed response time.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

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