By For Publisher on October 21, 2011
This is not really news because this has been going on for some years now.
Why do we write about it then? Growing interest in the Alentejo will eventually push prices up in the housing market, and for you, interested in the Alentejo we thought this might be of interest.
On the 9th of august The Independent [...]
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By For Publisher on December 6, 2010
And because we did not want to live a great distance from our children we decided Portugal would be the obvious choice as we both spoke Portuguese.
We had travelled through Portugal before and knew the area north of Lisbon however the warmer climate of the south met our needs a little better.
After we had travelled [...]
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By For Publisher on December 6, 2010
They had built in Portugal and went through what seemed like a long drawn out process and this scared us a little so we chose to purchase an existing house rather than build as we didn’t want to go through the nightmare of a long drawn out process.
Fate however had a different idea on what [...]
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By For Publisher on December 6, 2010
Some describe the Alentejo as the new Tuscany. We found an article in Redhot, magazine of Virgin airlines, the following lines are just a part of that article: “As anyone who’s visited Florence in high season will testify, Tuscany has become more than a tad overcrowded. Luckily for those who want to escape the tourists, [...]
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By For Publisher on December 6, 2010
A television crew from the popular show “A Place In The Sun” has visited the Alentejo region of Portugal documenting the country and it’s many attributes.
Local Realty firms are expecting a marked increase in the number of property sales as people are awakened to the inherent beauty of this EU partner when the show airs [...]
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By For Publisher on June 2, 2010
Let’s get started with some general information about Lisbon
“Fantastic beaches, pictorial cities, magnificent monasteries and always sun “.
With over 3.000 hours of sun in the year, it belongs to the golden beaches of the Algarve, where holiday-makers are spoiled climatically.
In addition, the silver coast (Costa Prata) or the Green coast and historical pregnant cities such [...]
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