Portugal news explained

Portugal news explained

Unesco site news in Portugal

Latest news and stories about unesco site in Portugal for expats and residents.

Portugal

1755:The Lisbon earthquake of 1755
At about 9.40 on the morning of All Saints' Day, with many people at Mass, a massive earthquake devastates Lisbon. Roughly 45 minutes to an hour later a tsunami surges up the Tagus into the lower town, and fires burn for days; modern estimates of the dead in Lisbon alone run from about 10,000 to 40,000.
Read more Earthquake and Enlightenment, 1750–1807
2011: The American surfer Garrett McNamara rides a wave of about 23.8 metres (78 feet) off Praia do Norte in Nazaré, a Guinness world record that put the fishing town's giant winter swells, funnelled by the Nazaré Canyon, on the global surfing map.

Elsewhere

1993: The Maastricht Treaty, signed in the Dutch city in February 1992, enters into force, creating the European Union and laying the foundations for European citizenship and the single currency.

Who appoints the Portuguese Prime Minister?

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