Read today's Portuguese stories delivered to your email A group of eight people and a dog were rescued on 3 May after having "accidentally fallen into a stream while walking along Trail 14" "Unable to get out on their own, the group members needed specialised assistance. The rescue operation was carried out efficiently, allowing everyone involved to be safely removed, without the need for medical care", reads a post by the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority The Beiras and Serra da Estrela Sub-regional Command received the alert at 5:06 p.m and stated that "a prompt response on the ground was essential to avoid more serious consequences considering the steep and slippery nature of the area where the incident occurred" The rescue operation involved 13 operatives, supported by five vehicles, from the Covilhã, Manteigas, and São Romão Fire Department, the Special Civil Protection Forc,e and the GNR-UEPS Mountain Group. 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The Municipal Water and Sanitation Services (SMAS) of Leiria invest more than 750 thousand euros per year to guarantee the quality of the municipality's water, through its Quality Control Laboratory, its administrator assured. The managing director of SMAS, Leandro Sousa, told Lusa news agency that the “costs related to the structure of the Quality Control Laboratory are in the order of 762 thousand euros per year and include maintenance costs for the building, equipment, consumables, material and personnel”. According to the person in charge, this is a “clear commitment to the quality of water and public health required in an accredited laboratory”. Located in São Romão, in the municipality of Leiria, the Quality Control Laboratory is an autonomous entity within SMAS, its main client. There are 400 collection points for collecting water samples, captured and distributed, along the 1,840 kilometers of the network in the municipality of Leiria. “It is the largest network in terms of extension, next to Sintra”, revealed Leandro Sousa. Tests are carried out daily on a number of pesticides, water pH, material microbiology and a defined list of microorganisms. Every year, three thousand containers enter the laboratory's various state-of-the-art equipment, where 11 laboratory technicians collaborate in the analysis of thousands of parameters per year, just in water for human consumption. “Non-compliance is around 0.2%”, assured Leandro Sousa, who highlighted that the “preventive and invisible work in terms of cleaning the reservoirs”, carried out upstream, will be reflected in the good water results. Each year, an operational plan is defined and the team strictly follows it: “New parameters and methodologies are defined every year. For example, pesticide levels vary from year to year. The water that reaches the taps is a highly verified and highly reliable product.” 24-hour monitoring can detect any abnormality, as happened around 20 years ago, when an area of the city of Leiria was left without water supply because it was contamination by ammoniacal nitrogen. The laboratory includes several spaces. In the area of microbiology, it is clear that everything is washable, disinfected and there is excellent control of temperature, humidity and pressure. The samples that arrive in the room are processed using different methodologies depending on what will be analysed. There are incubation and refrigeration greenhouses, among other materials, in duplicate, to ensure that everything runs smoothly, in case of a breakdown, explained Antonio Martins, technician responsible for microbiology, who said that the laboratory is also equipped with biological security cameras and test cultures, where a positive is introduced to verify and test that the equipment has the capacity to read it. In the physical chemistry laboratory, a number of compounds are analysed “such as nitrates, nitrites, pH and all traditional chemistry”, Gloria Pedrosa, technical manager of Physical Chemistry, told Lusa. In the short term, Leandro Sousa also revealed that an investment of 400 thousand euros is planned for the rehabilitation of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and around one million euros for the installation of photovoltaic panels, “as the cost of energy is significant”. The project by architects Assis Humberto and Marcus Vinícius, for CASACOR Minas 2022, had architecture as its main focus. The inspiration for the sensorial architecture proposed by the architects had as its starting point the centenary of the Semana de 22, considered a historic landmark for the entire Brazilian society, with reflections on culture, architecture, design and fashion. © Daniel MansurStudio + Formica was designed to be a ‘kitchen of sensations’ which refers to the old jirais and the comfortable chairs Taboca Jirau is the most democratic piece of vernacular design designates a structure composed of boards on sticks and sticks which serves to shelter and protect crops from contact with the ground and also to dry containers in the sun The table with an organic top refers to the lakes of the paths supported by four cylindrical bases of different thicknesses alluding to the sticks used to support a jirau” The duo's idea was to break with the rigid shapes of traditional dining tables adding an air of lightness to contemporary spaces You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961 the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures A ferocious heatwave was sweeping South America and samba composer Beto Gago (Stuttering Bob) saw only one thing to do: pop out for an ice-cold beer with his drinking buddy Joel Saideira – Last Order Joel “Damn, it was grim around here yesterday,” the 76-year-old musician grimaced as he stood outside his home in Irajá – reputedly Rio’s hottest neighbourhood – with a bohemian’s potbelly spilling out over his lilac shorts “It was bloody miserable. Even Lucifer was using a fan! He couldn’t bear the heat either!” chuckled Gago’s son, a 36-year-old sambista called Juninho Thybau Irajá – a No 3-shaped chunk of north Rio famed for its samba stars and oppressive heat – is far from the only corner of Brazil that has been baking under unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures. Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961 South America’s largest country is experiencing a mercilessly hot start to spring which is reputedly the world’s hottest inhabited place supposedly Brazil’s cloudy “Land of Drizzle” with temperatures hitting 36.5C on Sunday – its sixth hottest day since 1943 Neighbouring Paraguay – where the rural town of Filadelfia suffered 44.4C heat – and Peru – where the mercury rose to 40.3C in the Amazon outpost of Puerto Esperanza – are also feeling the burn as Rio’s most stifling post code braced for more extreme weather warned Wednesday could be the hottest day of 2023 Climatologist Karina Bruno Lima said the succession of record-breaking temperatures was unusual and “extremely concerning”. The heatwave follows a similar hot spell in August – shortly after the world’s hottest month on record – during the southern hemisphere winter. Read moreLima believed more research was needed to determine precisely how climate change affected individual weather events But “we’re already in a context of a changing climate and we must understand that more frequent and more intense extreme weather events are now a systemic occurrence” Experts partly blame the heat on the climate-heating event El Niño which also causes flooding in some regions “But it’s not the main factor,” argued Lima from Rio Grande do Sul’s federal university “The main factor truly is anthropogenic global heating.” “In much of the world we can observe an increase in heat-related extreme events An aerial view of the Rio Negro with very low water levels at the Cacau Pirera district in Iranduba Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty ImagesThat is bad news for the 100,000 residents of already-scorching Irajá which also suffers from being dissected by Avenida Brasil one of Rio’s busiest and most polluted motorways Beto Gago reminisced about his childhood in the neighbourhood during the 1950s Nearby forests were still standing and kept temperatures down But there used to be this cool breeze,” remembered the shirtless sambista it’s hard to tell which neighbourhood’s the coolest because the whole of Rio is bloody roasting,” said his son Samba composer Beto Gago (Stuttering Bob) with his son at Irajá’s sprawling food distribution centre – reputedly Latin America’s second largest – sweat-drenched workers stacked fruit onto handcarts despite the relentless heat you melt like an ice lolly,” joked Geraldo Lima a homeless man who earns about £8 a day loading trucks Lima was unsure if global heating was the culprit: “The truth is only God knows.” But market workers were certain temperatures were rising “Each day’s worse than the last,” said Thiago dos Santos as he hauled dozens of wooden crates off to a neighbouring favela for recycling Juninho Thybau, who is the nephew of Brazil’s most famous samba musician, Zeca Pagodinho insisted Irajá remained the city’s best place to live and was not Rio’s only extreme heat hotspot He remembered a recent performance in nearby Nilópolis another area famed for its samba scene and blistering heat it was so hot it felt like I was in hell,” he said Thybau, who holds a monthly jam session outside his house said a friend at city hall had warned him “a catastrophe” was heading Rio’s way with the start of summer in December likely to bring heavy rains and more severe heat Other adaptation methods beside ice-cold would be needed if the samba was to go on “We’re going to have to hire a water tanker to soak the crowd – or one of those fans that pumps out water.” Ethiopian Walks | 2017 | Cristina Ataíde the book Os Negros em Portugal [Black People in Portugal] has recently been re-issued in a third edition by the publishing house Caminho Tinhorão’s work gives an overview of different aspects of the presence of a significant black African population in Portugal established as a result of the slave trade which began in the 15th century The persistent dominance of a kind of lusotropicalist reticence as regards the colonial past has been one of a number of factors that have meant that Portuguese historiography has been slow to give adequate weight to the subject of slavery In it the role of slavery in Portuguese territory is carefully placed within an analysis of the politics of oceanic expansion Henrique to the Marquis of Pombal (himself a descendent of a black slave) who brought to an end the arrival of enslaved people into Portugal as well as recognizing the Portuguese as protagonists in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the European colonization of the Americas the book focuses on the scale and permanence of slavery in Portuguese territory itself the forced transportation of black Africans into Portugal to meet the demands of a transforming economy was crucial to creating the conditions of possibility for the formation and maintenance of the overseas empire: Portugal was the first country to export a slave labour force It did so within a mixed economy that was the result of the coalescence of the interests of the State the landed aristocracy and the administrative was the first country to employ captives in their territory in practically all the functions that slaves had performed since Antiquity (Tinhorão Tinhorão’s book has a clear limitation: it gives scant access to the subjective dimension of the experience of the black women and men who were part of Portuguese social life for centuries which began in the first half of the 15th century led to 10% of the population of Lisbon and the Algarve being black slaves by the 16th century The figures in the Alentejo and in Porto were similar Hence the subtitle of the 1988 edition of the book of a time when slavery constituted the foundations of Portuguese identity Stories of the effusive presence of the black population during festivals in the late 16th century – singing drinking and dancing whenever the possibility arose – contrast with the stern behaviour of the Portuguese Evidence shows slaves working in all kinds of roles and functions (often as ‘slaves for hire’) as well as the macabre punishments at the stake and in public squares cannot be obscured by the putative touristic vision of an ingenuous Museum of Discoveries Slavery presents us with an ontology devoid of human dignity with extremes of inequality and destruction whether in the constant violence of labour exploitation one of the most interesting aspects of this book is the way in which it recounts the innumerable strategies of resistance by which black populations identified themselves as subjects and as part of a diasporic and subaltern community the participation of black women and men in the spaces of religious festivals principally in the brotherhoods of Our Lady of Rosario They speak of the inventive syncretism by which Catholic traditions were strategically appropriated and Africanized the story of black people descended from slavery ends with the writings of the archaeologist Leite de Vasconcelos on the identification of groups of black people living at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries in places such as Alter do Chão the re-edition of this book in 2019 comes with a distinct contemporary relevance when we consider the social context in which scholarship on the presence of black people in the Portuguese context is received today in spite of a process of whitening that has diluted the genealogical traces of the black slave population this is nevertheless a significant ancestral presence in the contemporary Portuguese population is that which links the history of slavery with contemporary racism It is precisely because of oceanic expansion and the trans-Atlantic slave trade that black people arrived in the modern world with the mark of sub-humanity on their skin black people who came to Portugal in the 20th century from former African colonies are the symbolic descendents of the black men and women who lived in Portugal under the institution of slavery The increasing centrality of the voices of black and Afro-descendent people in Portugal speaking out against racism and the inequality of opportunity that it generates is the best guide to how to reconfigure an ancestry that deserves to be revived and reinvented The silencing of the presence of black men and women continues in contemporary Portugal It is legitimated through policies such as refusing to include ethnic-racial origin in the census It is anchored in a structural elision of black bodies in politics This silencing will continue to provide enormous amounts of work for future historians who come to study Portugal in the 21st century Though still subsumed within the weighty empires of Eurocentric amnesia fortunately there are more and more black people making their own history and recognizing themselves as descendants of incessant racism and remembering enslaved ancestors Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra He also jointly coordinates the PhD programme ‘Human Rights in Contemporary Societies,’ run by the University of Coimbra’s Centre for Social Studies in conjunction with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research He is associated with the project MEMOIRS – Children of Empire and European Post-memories Published under a Creative Commons License Text description provided by the architects. The installation was part of the 24th annual Architecture and Decoration exhibition, CASACOR Minas, which took place in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG-Brazil, between August and September of 2018. The event happened in a building listed by the Historical Heritage where the former headquarters of the Belo Horizonte Railway Network was located. Designed by the “Play Arquitetura” office in its first atuation in this eshibition, the project entitled "Casa Viva”(Living House) was based in a space that, like a common house, it is in constant movement and transformation. The basis of this experiment was an architectural object built on the third floor of the historic building, wich is a large site covered in ceramic roofing tile, structured by large metallic scissor trusses. © Jomar BragançaThe small temporary pavilion was designed taking into account the original building, drawing out new spatial and architectural perspectives, highlighting the relationship between the existing architecture and the new one, the exterior and interior, and the light and shadow among the shapes. © Jomar BragançaThe proposal sought to highlight and confront the multiple potentialities of architecture, interior architecture, design and art and their interrelations with their users, questioning the idea of architecture as something static and emotionally apathetic. professionals who work in the creation of this universe need to be aware of the relationships between these agents and project seeking affection in the sense of affecting each other in our emotions and subjectivities.” (Marcelo Alvarenga) The works in question involve the exterior paintwork and the surrounding wall, which represents a support package of €27,675 from the Lady of Light Parish, as approved in the last Lagos council meeting The origin of this religious site is uncertain, although the year 1521 is referenced in an inscription within. Considered an important monument in Lagos municipality, specifically in Vila da Luz where it’s located this church is notable for its gold-plated altarpiece The intervention is part of the municipality’s strategies to preserve its historical monuments was recently the target of conservation works and exterior maintenance through council support The intention of rehabilitating the Church of Saint Sebastian with the municipality at the moment waiting for the passing of a tri-partisan protocol which will allow for the project to advance into planning stages and We appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay for our services but if you are able to we ask you to support The Portugal News by making a contribution – no matter how small You can change how much you give or cancel your contributions at any time Send us your comments or opinion on this article Reaching over 400,000 people a week with news about Portugal Mulheres agricultoras pilotam as máquinas chinesas no Rio Grande do Norte - Afonso Bezerra The use of Chinese machinery in the Northeast could have a positive impact on the work of female farmers That's is the assessment of the workers themselves who hope that the arrival of machinery will reduce working time and increase production do housework and also need to go to street fairs [to sell their products] This [the Chinese machinery] will optimize our time in farms because we also need to be at street fairs and attend the movement’s meetings to expose our production That’s Antônia Diana da Silva’s assessment She is a farmer who lives in the São Romão settlement “It’s a dream of family farmers to implement mechanization in their farms I'll clean four with the machine," she celebrates mentioning the big leap the equipment can make for family farming and agroecology We can use them in agroecological production to bring quality food with no pesticides to workers’ tables to the tables of the Brazilian population.” equipment manufactured by Chinese companies began operating on Brazilian soil during a demonstration in the town of Apodi The Minister for Agrarian Development and Family Farming Fátima Bezerra (Workers’ Party) as well as union leaders and people's movements The initiative is part of a partnership between Brazil and China sewn by people’s movements and Brazil’s Northeast Consortium The agreement started in 2022 when the Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the International Institute of Agricultural Equipment Innovation and Intelligent Agriculture of China Agricultural University The International Association for People’s Cooperation (Baobá) also signed the MOU “Our comrades from China have a commitment with us: they will help set up machine factories for family farming based on the equipment we think is important to us," said João Pedro Stédile from the national leadership of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) “There is no successful policy without social movements The MST is the one that suggested and helped to make this partnership happen," Minister Paulo Teixeira explained during a press conference on the day of the event in Apodi mentioned the similarities between the realities of Brazil and China and praised the partnership between the two countries She was one of the main organizers of the partnership “Both Brazil and China are huge agricultural countries our partnership in the agribusiness sector has been growing and the two countries benefit from this commercial transaction Our agriculture sector exists thanks to small families like those here in the Northeast region.” the machines will undergo a trial period to assess how well they adapt to Brazilian reality a planter and a drone used for soil fertilization were presented at the event "The idea is to test these Chinese machines on our soil We're going to analyze the amount of fuel they consume whether it's harvesting rice or managing the land The idea is to see how efficient it is in the field so we can suggest adaptations," explained Maria da Saúde from the MST's production sector in Pernambuco state According to João Pedro Stédile the expectation is to advance in building factories in the northeastern states During his speech at the political event in Apodi Stédile criticized the concentration of the machinery market in Brazil and showed how this scenario is a major obstacle to peasant family farming There are no organic fertilizer factories in Brazil there are 1,200 organic fertilizer factories and they make fertilizer with organic matter with families’ and restaurants’ leftovers. the goal is to build a rice harvester factory in Maranhão state with the possibility of serving the states of Pará and Tocantins; a factory in the Cariri region Ceará state; another in Rio Grande do Norte and a bio-input factory in Pernambuco state. "Without a factory in the Northeast region We want these factories to come here to the Northeast so that we can expand the supply of mechanization at a fair price," explained Alexandre Lima Rio Grande do Norte's Secretary for Family Farming All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced Browning a weapons factory which first opened 50 years ago in Viana do Castelo has completed the expansion of the unit in São Romão do Neiva A source from the Belgian group FN Herstal told Lusa that "since the beginning of the expansion project According to Browing Viana's official website responsible for the production of Browning and Winchester weapons now occupies "a total area of 30,000 square metres" It is the largest weapons factory in Portugal, authorised by the PSP to produce up to 150,000 units per year. The investment in expanding the facilities the Viana do Castelo Chamber unanimously approved the recognition of municipal interest in the investment Browning produces rifles and hunting rifles with "70% of production destined for the American market" The company estimates that it will close the year 2023 with "a turnover of 80 million euros" predicting an increase in turnover of eight million euros by 2024 Nature, identity, body, reflection, river, island. At Galerias Municipais – Galeria Avenida da Índia, Mónica de Miranda presents Mirages and Deep Time, a multimedia exhibition on ecology and communion with nature black history and identity in the context of Portuguese colonial history in particular about the black community that inhabited the banks of the Tejo and Sado rivers Entering into Galeria Avenida da Índia is refreshing we see the first two characters of the stories told by Mónica de Miranda They emerge along the exhibition itinerary a small ecosystem composed of a tree and natural vegetation inserted in a parallelepiped made of wood and mosquito net This natural setting is illuminated by an artificial white light A mirror inside this structure reflects the interior of this ecosystem and our body When we walk to another point in the exhibition we notice the ambient melody in the exhibition venue sporadically overlapped by other noises and voices “Our bodies are older than images or words” Nature looms in a large-format photograph that takes up an entire wall Deep Green (2022) shows one of the female guerrilla fighters in a dense landscape The red of her beret stands out amidst the natural green we see another image superimposed: the young guerrilla women together again sitting on a tree trunk fallen over a river whose base is a wooden structure composed of several elements: a mirror a red curtain and a kind of flowerbed with natural plants Most of the installations have wheels at the base we see a long photograph of a riverbank and the huge surrounding vegetation black and white landscape that has the oddity of having been embroidered Mónica de Miranda embroidered species of trees and bushes The threads go beyond the limits of the image as if the landscape came to life and became three-dimensional Mónica de Miranda revisits these forgotten and unstudied places a shelf on the wall displays four photographs of time-scarred objects They look like artefacts and remind us of the importance of archaeologically exploring the banks of the Tejo and Sado a diptych showing two women sitting on the riverbank vegetation they look at the landscape and are in communion with it The title of the work suggests an intimate moment of harmony with the river waters a fresh and pristine bath in memory of their ancestry housed in wooden boxes of different heights The words warn about our relationship with the soil The Lunch on the Beach [after Manet] (2022) is a large format photograph divided into six parts We see in it a lunch by the river between a woman and a man; seated opposite each other at a table the image contains small still lifes (a radio The guerrilla women appear one on each side in the edges of the photo as if protecting the meeting that is taking place at the riverside where we see the extraordinary dimension of the natural landscape in relation to humans the photograph reclaims the female perspective on art in a new interpretation of the famous painting Luncheon on the Grass (1863) by Manet Our bodies are older than the images and the words” Mirages and Deep Time shows the cross-disciplinary work of Mónica de Miranda in an exhibition about decolonisation and ecology the mirror appears as an essential element We cannot see the exhibition without being confronted with our own image The artist deals with the spiritual and metaphysical aspects between humans simultaneously reviving the memory of the black communities that inhabited the Tejo and the Sado rivers The exhibition is at Galerias Municipais – Galeria Avenida da Índia until September 25 [2] Ibidem. 1996) has a degree in Multimedia Art - Audiovisuals from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Universidade de Lisboa She did an internship in the Lisbon Municipal Archive Video Library where she collaborated with the project TRAÇA in the digitization of family videos in film format She recently finished her postgraduate degree in Art Curatorship at NOVA/FCSH where she was part of the collective of curators responsible for the exhibition “Na margem da paisagem vem o mundo” and began collaborating with the Umbigo magazine Subscribe to the Newsletter (EN Version)! I accept the Privacy Policy Subscribe Umbigo more than half of the Brazilian population lives in a situation of food insecurity and millions of people do not have full and permanent access to food and basic necessities For the benefit of the most vulnerable families the Salesians of Vitória have started the local campaign "Solidarity Salesian Hands" Created by the Youth Ministry of the Salesian Works of Vitória the initiative aims to collect non-perishable food food baskets with basic products and personal hygiene products that will be destined for families assisted by "Cesam-ES" and the Salesian oratory and those of the areas of Forte São João through the "Vitória in Solidarity" initiative contributed to the campaign by delivering basic food baskets who for us are the image of Christ himself,” said Salesian Luiz Fernando de Oliveira ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007 This site also uses third-party cookies to improve user experience and for statistical purposes By scrolling through this page or by clicking on any of its elements WHILE Portugal is a popular holiday destination among Brits finding somewhere cheap can be a little bit tricky a little-known city in Portugal has just been crowned the most affordable to visit Recent research from Porto Travel Guide revealed the most affordable city breaks in Portugal The experts analysed the data from 104 Portuguese cities to find the most affordable They based their findings on factors like flight and hotel costs and the price of meals - with each city given an affordability score out of 100 Fafe in northern Portugal took the crown with a score 87.91 out of 100 According to the research, holidaymakers can book hotel rooms from just £10.61 per night Food and drink is cheap too with a meal at an inexpensive restaurant costing as little as £3.55 per person There are plenty of things to do in Fafe too the "Castle of Stone" blends into the natural landscape effortlessly The stone building is now a museum full of memorabilia and photographs of the history of the building and the beautiful surrounding landscapes Even though the two-storey house is fairly tiny, it does have an outdoor swimming pool attached to the building Entry tickets into Casa de Penedo cost £1.74 per person with it still receiving positive reviews on TripAdvisor One person wrote: "This is the famous 'Flintstones House' of Fafe It's located in the hills around Fafe where you can have an amazing view of the City." Other tourist attractions in Fafe include Igreja de São Romão de Arões - a Romanesque-style church dating back to the 1200s There's also Casa do Santo Velho, a striking mansion that was constructed in the 1600s The Portuguese city is roughly an hour's drive away from the coast with locals preferring to cool off at the local reservoir called Barragem da Queimadela Swimming is allowed in the reservoir, with lifeguards on duty in the summer months while refreshments can also be purchased from a local cafe Other places to cool off include Parque Aquático de Fafe - a huge outdoor water park The water park sits on a hill and it's home to multiple slides Ryanair and easyJet both operate direct flights from London to Porto with prices starting at £15 for a one-way ticket Fafe is a 50-minute drive away from Porto Airport, with the journey taking much longer on public transport Other affordable destinations in Portugal included Oliveira de Azeméis in the Porto Metropolitan Area While hotels can also be snapped up for as little as £10.61 a night, the cost of meals out and taxis was a little higher Other cheap city breaks included Vila Nova de Famalicão and Amarante - all of which were only narrowly more expensive then Fafe Flavio Bastos, Editor at Porto Travel Guide, said: " Portugal has proven to be a popular tourist destination over the past year, with 348,000 Google searches for 'Portugal holidays' worldwide over the past 12 months on average "Affordable travel and accommodation costs for many of these hidden gems mean that tourists can experience the vibrant culture that the country has to offer Earlier this year, luggage storage company, Bounce also revealed the most affordable city breaks around the world While Timișoara in Romania took the crown largely thanks to its cheap food and drink Cadiz, a port city on the southern tip of Andalusia, was ranked in ninth place - making it the cheapest spot in Spain Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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Cascais If you haven't yet experienced Vietnamese flavors here's a great excuse with an excellent view SEN Estoril offers a wide range of starters to share — from spring rolls If you're unsure what to choose with so many options a dish that combines a variety of starters so you can taste a bit of everything Some of the main dishes include Cá Mú Nướng Lá Chuối (29,90€) a grilled grouper fillet wrapped in banana leaf with lemongrass and chili sauce; Vit Quay (25,90€) a crispy roasted duck fillet with five spices served with sauce on the side; or Cá Tuyết Đen Sốt Cà Chua (39,90€) black cod cooked in the style of Hanoi with tomato sauce There's also a lunch menu priced at 23,90€ It's available on weekdays from 12:00 to 14:30 This is the restaurant of Nguyen Kieu Trang and Pham Hieu a couple from Hanoi who have been living in Portugal for seven years After studying in Switzerland and traveling around Europe They identified with the climate and the culture of sharing gastronomy The restaurant became very popular among locals but seeking more opportunities and a larger market the Vietnamese couple moved to the Estoril area where they found the space that would become the new SEN Thanks to the success of the restaurant in Estoril They opened a restaurant in Centro Colombo last December and another one will soon be inaugurated in downtown Lisbon These have concepts more linked to food courts with a shorter menu adapted to European tastes Thanks for subscribing! 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