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There is public debate regarding the picnic scheduled for this coming Sunday at Eduardo VII Park in Lisbon.
For the 50th anniversary of the Constitution, the lawn next to the exterior stairs has gained two coats of arms: one with the national shields and another with the ravens of Lisbon. Three landscape architects discuss the choice.
The space reopens “with better conditions of comfort, safety and functionality for merchants, residents and visitors,” following the damage caused by the storm Kristin in January.
The decision to liberalise the market was the right one. Now, the real focus must be elsewhere: ensuring competition for public space for charging.
Lisbon faces real challenges, from mobility to pressure on public space. Ignoring them would be a mistake. But it is equally reductive to ignore the progress that is already being made. Opinion by António Valle
The operation to remove cars seized by police forces is expected to take about a week.
The Vizinhos de Lisboa association has asked the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, to notify the presidential campaigns of António José Seguro, Marques Mendes, and André Ventura, demanding the removal of election posters still on public roads. As reported by DN, this is due to campaign budget savings, as they are waiting for the propaganda to be replaced by materials from the parties that supported them. In the letter sent to Carlos Moedas, the association highlights that weeks after the election, the posters remain visible, contributing to the degradation of the city's urban image and visual pollution. The association requests that the municipality notify the campaign structures to remove the materials promptly, or face forced removal at the candidates' expense if they fail to comply within a reasonable timeframe.
The right debate, in a liberal democracy, is not whether one can pray, but where and how communal prayer takes place in public spaces — and whether, in certain contexts, a rite transforms into political discourse.
Months after the presidential election, campaign posters for candidates like Marques Mendes, António José Seguro, and João Cotrim de Figueiredo are still visible across Portugal. The delay in removal is largely due to financial constraints and the practice of waiting for parties to produce new promotional materials to replace the old ones. While some candidates, such as André Ventura and Henrique Gouveia e Melo, acted quickly to clear their visual footprint, others are leaving their posters up to save on removal costs, despite the political and aesthetic implications of keeping outdated campaign imagery in public spaces.
If the city is humanity's greatest work, arcaded streets are perhaps its special mention. Like a relay race where each building continues where the previous one stops. A chronicle by Miguel Marcelino.
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The decree establishes the maintenance of the North Park within the public railway domain.
Pedro Duarte says that, after all, the pots comply with rules governing the use of public space and that there was 'a communication problem'. He says he wants to encourage similar initiatives.
What is at stake is not just the cleanliness of the streets or safety on the pavements; it is the way we choose to live together with one another and with the living beings that share the world with us.
The launch of the public tender was scheduled for the first half of the year. Pedro Duarte, on the sidelines of the inauguration of Jardim Senhora do Porto, says the process is still “in an embryonic phase”.
The project to create the Adraga–Praia Grande Ecological Park in the municipality of Sintra is underway. It is expected to be ready by the end of 2027.
