Portugal is the southwestern country on the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with Spain. Portugal is about twice the size of the Netherlands. Capital Lisbon and Porto, the country’s second city, are popular city break destinations. Most tourists who travel to Portugal settle in the Algarve. This coastal area on the south coast of Portugal […]

Subchapters: Basic data Public finances and the state budget Banking system Tax system Basic data In 2021, GDP grew by 4.9%, which was the best result since 1990. This happened after the largest ever economic contraction of 8.4% in 2020, which was a result of the adverse effects of the covid-19 pandemic on economic activity. […]

VISAS, ENTRY RULES, CUSTOMS REGULATIONS in Portugal Portugal is part of the Schengen area and upon receipt of a Portuguese visa, you can freely visit all 15 countries that have signed the agreement. To apply for a visa at the Embassy of Portugal, you must submit the following documents: – a passport with a validity […]

The territory of Portugal has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era. In the Bronze Age, metallurgical production was developed in the north of the country, the products of which were exported outside the country. Over the following centuries, Greeks, Romans and immigrants from North Africa settled in this territory. In 713-718. Portuguese territory was conquered […]

Portugal is a state in Europe in the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula. Shared borders with Spain. Capital Lisbon. Currency – euro. The population is 10.5 million people. The vast majority of the population is Catholic. The official language is Portuguese. English and Spanish are also used. The difference with Moscow time is 3 […]

Transportation Traveling by plane According to top-medical-schools, TAP Air Portugal (TP) flies to Lisbon, Faro, Porto Santo, Oporto, Funchal on Madeira and the Azores. The airline SATA (Sociedade Açoriana de Transportes Aereos) (SP) (www.sata.pt) connects the individual Azores islands with each other and with mainland Portugal and other European and non-European cities. Traveling by car/bus […]

Despite joining the European Monetary Union, at the beginning of the new century, Portugal had not managed to significantly reduce the distance from the more developed European states. This goal, which in 1999 had been announced by the socialist government as a priority for the country, appeared in 2006, even after the experience of a […]

The secular domination of a monarchy scarcely thoughtful of the interest and education of the country, had favored selfishness and carelessness, political struggles almost always based on rivalry, the pronouncements of supernumerary officers and soldiers discontented with advancement or of the pay, the camarillas that from Lisbon they knew how to constantly “work” the elections to secure the necessary […]

Army. – The land armed forces of Portugal consist of the Metropolitan Army and the Colonial Army. For Portugal military, please check militarynous.com. The metropolitan army has the following tasks: to garrison the territories of the continent and the adjacent islands (Azores and Madeira); to attend to the education and mobilization of the country army; to […]

Architecture. – The high quality of Portuguese architecture after the revolution is also reflected in the most recent production: the severe economic recession that brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy in 2011 greatly reduced job opportunities, but did not prevent the construction of high quality architecture, often included in the strategic plans drawn […]

Architecture. – Even from the point of view of the history of architecture, that of 1974 can be considered a significant date, which separates two very different periods, even if the style of the Portuguese architects followed more closely the general movements of world architecture than internal events of Portugal. This is the case of […]

At the beginning of the war Portugal declared its neutrality. It could be maintained, on the one hand, due to the convergence towards this objective, both of the caution of England (which did not suit complications in the Iberian Peninsula), and of the Germanic presumption of being able – if necessary – to occupy Portugal […]

Lisbon is located in the west of Portugal, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, on the right bank (to the north) of the estuary of the Tagus River. The city occupies an area of 84.8 km². The city limits, contrary to what usually happens in large cities, are well defined within the limits of the historical […]

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Portuguese territory has attracted man since the most remote times. Only with the Lusitanians, probably derived from an Iberian group settled in the mountainous areas of Beira and who, coming from NE, invaded the country in the first millennium BC. C., however, there was a first cultural homogenization of the country (not […]