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Daytime aerial view of Matosinhos showing the city, the Leixoes port basins with container terminal, the marina and the surrounding residential blocks

Matosinhos Will Borrow €40 Million to Build 500 Affordable-Rent Homes Rather Than Wait for the Government's Share

Luísa Salgueiro says the council is fronting money that belongs to central government. The loan goes before the executive on Wednesday, funds 500 homes on municipal land including one development reserved for under-35s, and also pays for seven estates totalling 1,173 dwellings left out of the PRR.

The Portugal Brief 28 Aug 2026

The rebuilt Mercado do Bolhao in Porto seen from the upper gallery in black and white, its rows of pitched stall roofs almost empty, a single figure crossing the central aisle.

A Porto Court Freezes the Bolhão Auction Where One Fish Stall Went for 7,550 Euros a Month, Twenty-Two Times Its Base Price

The Tribunal Administrativo e Fiscal do Porto has admitted a popular action filed by a traders' association on 30 July, freezing the contracts from the 14 July auction. Mayor Pedro Duarte calls it a normal procedure and says the market's operation is untouched.

The Portugal Brief 27 Aug 2026

A surfer riding whitewater at Matosinhos beach near Porto, with the Leixões breakwater and the spiral white cruise terminal building and a moored cruise ship on the horizon behind.

Bathing Is Advised Against at Six Matosinhos Beaches at Once, and an APA Advisory Is Not the Same Thing as a Red Flag

Agudela, Cabo do Mundo, Matosinhos, Marreco, Memória and Quebrada are all flagged for microbiological contamination, with Foz do Lima and Vila Praia de Âncora making eight on the northern coast.

The Portugal Brief 27 Aug 2026

A white and blue PSP patrol car parked on granite cobbles at Largo Primeiro de Dezembro in Porto, with the word POLICIA along its bonnet and side.

More Crime, Less Violence: Porto's Police Area Counts 10.9 Percent More Offences and 8.4 Percent Fewer Violent Ones

Provisional PSP figures given to Lusa put general crime in the Porto metropolitan command 10.9 percent above the same stretch of last year, with violent and serious crime down 8.4 percent. Offences the police found themselves, rather than ones reported to them, rose 17.5 percent.

The Portugal Brief 26 Aug 2026

The gate and derelict pavilion of the old Matadouro Industrial do Porto beside the road at Campanha, with the roofline of the Estadio do Dragao visible behind the trees.

Porto's Old Slaughterhouse Misses Another Summer, and Its Cultural Centre Now Opens in Stages Through 2027

The câmara told Lusa on Monday that the Matadouro will be handed over at the end of 2026, with fit-out running across 2027. Last October the manager said the 40 million euro M-ODU could open this summer and house more than 700 Mota-Engil staff by the third quarter of 2026.

The Portugal Brief 25 Aug 2026

Two banded bundles of euro banknotes lying on a pale wooden desk, a strap of fifties behind a thicker strap of twenties, serial numbers printed on the paper bands

One Abandoned Suitcase in Porto Held More Fake Euros Than Portugal Seized in All of 2025

More than seven thousand counterfeit 200-euro notes, face value 1,470,000 euros, were left beside recycling bins on Rua do Almada. The 2025 Annual Internal Security Report puts the whole year's euro seizures at 952,725 euros across 19,366 notes.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

Platforms at Porto's Campanha railway station, with CP signage, overhead catenary and passengers waiting beside the tracks under a concrete canopy

About 40 Campanhã Households Sit in the High-Speed Line's Path, and Porto Is Weighing Municipal Land at Noeda to Rehouse Them

The câmara says it has identified council land behind Campanhã station and is examining its use with LusoLav, covering owners and tenants alike. The execution project foresees 236 demolitions between Porto and Oiã, and residents say nobody has visited them since the route was published in 2024.

The Portugal Brief 24 Aug 2026

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