Major projects in Portugal are not just stalled. They are stopped. The TGV-style bullet train from Madrid to Lisbon, the city's new airport and a planned freeway expansion have all been halted.
Peter Mandel | Posted 04.03.2012
The bathroom is where your hotel's earnest personality really begins to beam.
Off Track Planet | Posted 03.27.2012
Covered in steep hills and rickety descents, Lisbon takes some climbing to explore. While most of Europe gives up the goods pretty easily, Lisbon makes you work for its main attractions.
BootsnAll | Posted 02.04.2012
Lavish, old subway stops in allow passengers to travel back in time as they walk long corridors filled with antique chandeliers and other decadent embellishments.
BootsnAll | Posted 12.18.2011
Bone churches, called ossuaries, can be found in several countries in Europe and range from piles of decorated skulls to pieces of wall art made up of various human bones.
The Daily Meal | Posted 12.02.2011
How many times have you embarked on a trip with a strict budget? You book your flight with miles, plan your itinerary ahead to avoid impromptu purchases, and even take your full budget out of the ATM and pay for everything with cash so you know just how much you've spent. Then you watch solemnly as that budget flies right out the window on day two and you've officially entered splurge territory.
Danna Harman | Posted 09.18.2011
It often seems the Portuguese experiment is something of a Rorschach test -- in the dark blobs on the page, people can see whatever they want to see.
Posted 08.10.2011
PARIS (Catherine Bremer) - South Africa's Trevor Manuel ruled himself out of the race for the IMF's top job on Friday, making French finance minis...
Posted 07.03.2011
LISBON - Portugal is close to reaching an agreement with the European Union and IMF on a bailout for the debt-laden country and there are no disag...
Posted 05.25.2011
LISBON/BRUSSELS - The resignation of Portugal's prime minister will dominate a summit of EU leaders on the European economy on Thursday and Friday...
OneTravel | Posted 05.25.2011
The compact city invades the senses with colorful facades and intricate balconies, blaring fado music, neighborhood tussles, and roller coaster tram rides.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Some cities that perennially make "ten-most-romantic cities" lists. And people fall in love with them, and in them, in part because they are so conducive to nourishing the human spirit.
Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 05.25.2011
If you let fear and insecurity keep you from talking to locals and you aren't lucky enough to have any friends in your sojourn locale, then your travel experience may not get to the heart of a culture: the people.
Posted 05.25.2011
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro used some colorful language while lashing out in a new article on U.S. leadership, calling President Barack Obama the...
Posted 05.25.2011
Protesters seemed to run rampant in the third week of November 2010, with ongoing massive demonstrations taking place not just in Greece and Thailand,...
Posted 05.25.2011
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. intends to work with Portugal and all of Europe to support vigorous steps to strengthen ...
Khalil Nouri | Posted 05.25.2011
NATO's meeting to build political consensus across the alliance for the post-2011 phase of "gradually" handing over security responsibilities to the A...
Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
The accordion is an instrument that contains its own hand-pumped air supply. These mechanical "lungs" bring out a physical response in me.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
For the past ten years, my teaching abroad has focused on countries that are experiencing great political change and dramatic modifications in the art...
Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
Lisbon-based Deolinda is not a Fado band. The influence of the music is very much there, but the tone is utterly different. It is whimsical and playful, but it never gets quite as brooding as Fado.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011
An industrial building has been reconfigured to accommodate the adventurous appetites of these childhood buddies, who have taken their street art from Brooklyn to the Tate -- with many stops along the way.
Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, Brandon Flowers runs from the Killers, Robert Plant steps into the swamp, Linkin Park channels Chuck D, Weezer goes indie, and Mavis Staples sits in the pew next to Jeff Tweedy.
Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011
Tasha Gordon-Solmon | Posted 05.25.2011
First Vienna and Jake ended, then it was Ed and Jillian. It's a good thing I am completely 100% confident that Ali will find true and ever lasting lov...
Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday, the government released a report that shows that a rising number of people -- nearly 2 million in April -- are walking away from a secure job. As the economy improves, they're making a career change.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.13.2012