News and developments from Porto, Portugal's second city.
Revolut opened a Matosinhos sales hub on 22 May 2026, committing a minimum €30 million through 2028 and targeting at least 250 net new jobs on top of the 100 already booked. Portugal customer base now over two million.
FC Porto take the 31st title with a Douro-and-Aliados parade Villas-Boas called the biggest in club history. Montenegro announces a Via de Cintura Externa between the VCI and CREP/A41. STCP bus speeds rise for the first time in four years. Serralves em Festa returns 29–31 May for the 20th edition.
FC Porto wrapped up the 2025-26 Primeira Liga on Saturday with a 1-0 win at Santa Clara, the club's 31st national championship and first under coach Francesco Farioli's first full season. Captain Diogo Costa led the celebrations on the Ribeira around 22h.
Six Portuguese câmaras mark 17 May IDAHOBIT with a rainbow flag-raising on Sunday — Porto leads at 17:00 on Praça Humberto Delgado. Lisbon's PSD-CDS-IL-Chega majority blocked a Bloco proposal on 6 May. Activists gather at the Câmara at 11:00.
STCP — Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto — closed the 2025 operational year at 71.8 million passengers carried and a €2.9 million lucro líquido, posting a second consecutive year in the black against a heavy fleet-electrification and Andante-integration capex tape.
Internal Administration Minister Luís Neves used the Thursday 14 May 2026 edition of RTP3's Grande Entrevista to confirm — for the first time on the record — that the Polícia de Segurança Pública will close esquadras in Lisbon and other major urban...
PRO.VAR has rejected BdP Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira's five-indicator no-crisis reading of the restaurant sector, arguing the BdP aggregate masks the collapse of traditional restaurants — a debate sharpened by Publico's May 10 deep dive on the segment's structural fragility.
