By contrast the empires of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands were overseas settler colonies in ...

New and newly expanded hotels like Quinta do Paral, Casa do Gadanha and Quinta Camarena are offering new ways to experience ...

The colonization of Africa has created many seemingly arbitrary (and sometimes problematic) borders. One of these African borders is so complicated that it is the only one of its kind in the world.

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That was after her trailblazing performances at the UK’s most celebrated annual music festival, Glastonbury, which attracted ...

Though it's the second-largest city in Portugal, Porto is still relatively ... Ribeira This historic section of downtown Porto (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) rubs elbows with the Douro River.

From a one-room taverna in Montreal to a global empire, Costas Spiliadis’ forty-five years of Milos comes full-circle with a ...

As for why she would want to bike around the world, Wilcox says it seemed like a good way to spend her summer.

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The Plaza del Obradoiro is quite the place. Dominated by the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela’s exuberant west facade – all ...

More than 5,000 personnel are battling a number of wildfires, the authorities said, and the prime minister called it an ...

A state of "calamity" has been declared in the worst-hit areas after Portugal's worst fire outbreak in recent years, with ...