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The two carriageways of the A1 motorway at Fatima with light traffic and a blue gantry sign reading A1 Lisboa Torres Novas

The A1 Turned Thirty-Five on Sunday, and Now Carries 2.6 Times the Daily Traffic of the Day It Was Finished

One of the Brisa engineers on the final Torres Novas to Condeixa stretch told Lusa what changed: the country stopped being 800 kilometres long and became 300 or 400.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

The Castelo de Leiria on its wooded hill above the town, with the arched loggia of the royal palace and the crenellated curtain wall clearly visible

Leiria's Castle and Lisbon's Cathedral Head the New Seven Wonders of Portugal, Picked From 147 Candidates

A Roman villa in the Alentejo, an aqueduct at Obidos, the market halls of Olhao, a working winery in Estremoz and a baroque garden in Castelo Branco complete the list voted on Saturday night.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

Five new Sanjo canvas shoes in navy, black, white, blue and red on a retail display shelf, still carrying their swing tags and price labels

Seventy-One Portuguese Footwear Companies Open a Milan Week With a 100 Million Euro Investment Cycle Behind Them

Thirty-two exhibit at Micam, thirty-one at Lineapelle and eight at Simac. What they are showing is the output of two Recovery Plan projects worth about 110 million euros between them.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

The frontage of the Sete Rios coach terminal in Lisbon on a clear day, with a Rede Expressos ticket office and a coach waiting at the kerb

More Irregular Migrants Are Reaching Lisbon and Porto by Coach and Train, and the PSP Is Watching the Terminals

Secondary movement inside Schengen is now the borders unit's main worry, ahead of the external frontier. For many of those arriving, Portugal is a staging post rather than a destination.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

The departures concourse at Lisbon Humberto Delgado airport, with overhead signs reading partidas, departures and terminal 2

Portugal Has 130 Places to Hold the People It Plans to Remove, and the PSP Wants 306 by Late 2027

The head of the national foreigners and borders unit told Lusa the estate meets Portugal's obligations today. The return law that came into force on Friday lets people be held in it for up to 360 days.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

Rows of pear trees heavy with fruit in an orchard at Bombarral in the Oeste, with a trellised orchard covering the hillside behind under a blue sky.

Portugal Moved the Deadline for Fruit and Vegetable Funding Programmes to 30 September, Four Days Before the Old One Fell

The seventh amendment to a 2023 ordinance concedes in its own preamble that a 15 September deadline landed in the middle of the harvest and had repeatedly needed extending. It took effect the day after publication.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

An aerial view of Lisbon showing the runways of Humberto Delgado Airport running through the city, the Tagus estuary, the Vasco da Gama bridge and the Montijo airfield on the far bank.

Portugal Ratified the EU's Open-Skies Agreements With Ukraine and Armenia, and the Ukrainian Sky They Cover Has Been Shut to Civil Aircraft Since 2022

Two one-page decrees in Friday's gazette carry 103 pages of treaty text between them. The Ukraine deal opens in three stages and ends with EU carriers flying inside Ukraine, but EASA still advises operators to stay out of the airspace until 2027.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

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