Latest news and stories about european history in Portugal for expats and residents.
From the outside it looks like a place out of a fairy tale, but inside hides a darker history
What message are Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium—the largest agents of the trafficking of enslaved Africans—sending by abstaining from declaring this the greatest crime against humanity? Opinion by Maria Giulia Pinheiro.
A new analysis of manuscripts brings important revelations
The values we consider central today, such as religious freedom, pluralism, and human dignity, are not automatic inheritances of history, but hard-learned moral achievements.
