Lisbon is in fashion!

I have heard this phrase hundreds of times. The Portuguese capital has been on everyone’s lips lately. Lisbon is talked about in London, compared to Berlin and even across the pond they say that Lisbon is the new California, one of the coolest cities in Europe.   Last year 2017 was a great year for […]

Claveles Revolution

From 1926 to 1974, Portugal was under the Salazar Dictatorship or the “Estado Novo”, a sort of cross between Franco’s Spain and Mussolini’s Italy, a repressive regime with a German Gestapo-style political police that had eyes and ears everywhere on Portuguese territory. Arrests, persecutions, repression and lack of freedom. The Portuguese people were tired of […]