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Tourism industry, travel trends, and visitor statistics for Portugal.

Rows of straw parasols and blue sunbeds on the wide sand of Troia beach in Portugal, with a wooden boardwalk in the foreground and the Arrabida hills across the water behind.

An Order Published on Friday Hands Portugal's Environment Agency Twelve Months to Redraw the Beach Rules From Sesimbra to Odeceixe

Despacho n.º 11520/2026 reopens the Espichel-Odeceixe coastal programme four years after it was approved, after an inspection of 45 kilometres of Grândola coast between Troia and Melides. Sixteen bodies sit on the advisory committee; the beach concessionaires attend only when invited.

An ornate carved stone shopfront in central Lisbon at night, its lintel reading Au Bonheur des Dames, the two arched windows now lit as an ice cream counter with customers inside.

Portuguese Councils Would Get to Switch Off Zero Licensing Across Part of Their Historic Centres, Under a Code Still Being Drafted

Manuel Castro Almeida told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that municipal assemblies will be able to carve a percentage of their urban territory out of the licenciamento zero regime, to stop front shops and protect shops with a history.