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WRC Vodafone Rally de Portugal Opens in Coimbra Today as the 59th Edition Loads 70 Crews, 23 Stages and 345 Competitive Kilometres From Aveiro to the Fafe Power Stage — Ogier Defends, Evans Leads on 101 Points and Neuville Tops the Baltar Shakedown

WRC Vodafone Rally de Portugal Opens in Coimbra Today as the 59th Edition Loads 70 Crews, 23 Stages and 345 Competitive Kilometres From Aveiro to the Fafe Power Stage — Ogier Defends, Evans Leads on 101 Points and Neuville Tops the Baltar Shakedown

The 59th Vodafone Rally de Portugal opens at 14:00 today on Coimbra's Avenida de Conímbriga as 70 crews, 11 of them Rally1, head into 23 special stages totalling 345.14 competitive kilometres on gravel between the Aveiro lowlands, the Coimbra hills, the Douro and the Fafe finale on Sunday.
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Public Transport Passes in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Lisbon Navegante, the Porto Andante, the Passe Ferroviário Verde, the Free Sub-23 and Sub-18 Tariffs, the +65 Tier and the Regional Networks of Coimbra, Braga, Aveiro and Faro

Public Transport Passes in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Lisbon Navegante, the Porto Andante, the Passe Ferroviário Verde, the Free Sub-23 and Sub-18 Tariffs, the +65 Tier and the Regional Networks of Coimbra, Braga, Aveiro and Faro

Portugal's transport-pass stack runs from the €40 Navegante (Lisbon) and Andante (Porto) metropolitan caps, through the €20 Passe Ferroviário Verde for inter-regional rail, to the free Sub-23 / Sub-18 regime — frozen for the seventh consecutive year in 2026.
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Túnel do Marão Closes Its First Decade With 45 Million Vehicle Crossings — A4 Daily Average Climbs From 9,590 in Pandemic-Hit 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 as the Toll-Free Reset Lands Its Full Year

Túnel do Marão Closes Its First Decade With 45 Million Vehicle Crossings — A4 Daily Average Climbs From 9,590 in Pandemic-Hit 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 as the Toll-Free Reset Lands Its Full Year

Infraestruturas de Portugal marks the Túnel do Marão's tenth anniversary with 45 million cumulative crossings. The 5.6 km Iberian record-holder anchors the A4 Vila Real–Amarante stretch, with daily traffic up from 9,590 in 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 after the January 2025 toll elimination.
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Transtejo Soflusa Will Open a Direct Seixal–Barreiro Electric-Ferry Run From June 2026 — Weekends First, Then Weekdays, on Top of the 100% Electric Seixal–Cais do Sodré Spine That Has Already Saved 1.74 Million Litres of Diesel

Transtejo Soflusa Will Open a Direct Seixal–Barreiro Electric-Ferry Run From June 2026 — Weekends First, Then Weekdays, on Top of the 100% Electric Seixal–Cais do Sodré Spine That Has Already Saved 1.74 Million Litres of Diesel

Minister Miguel Pinto Luz confirmed Transtejo Soflusa will open a Seixal–Barreiro fluvial connection in June 2026 — weekends first, weekdays to follow. The new line plugs into a 10-vessel electric fleet that has carried 2 million passengers and saved 1.74 million litres of diesel a year.
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Cycling in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the EuroVelo 1 Atlantic Coast Route, the Algarve Ecovia do Litoral, the Ecopistas Network, the Lisbon Gira and Porto Bike-Share Schemes, and the Comboios de Portugal Cycle-on-Train Rules

Cycling in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the EuroVelo 1 Atlantic Coast Route, the Algarve Ecovia do Litoral, the Ecopistas Network, the Lisbon Gira and Porto Bike-Share Schemes, and the Comboios de Portugal Cycle-on-Train Rules

Portugal sits at the southwestern end of EuroVelo 1, and the practical cycling stack — Ecovia do Litoral, Ecopistas, Lisbon Gira, Porto bike-share, CP cycle-on-train — has matured fast. A 2026 guide for foreign residents to the routes, urban schemes, gear and train logistics.
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