There, you can discover some exceptional works of art, including a gigantic panel depicting the city of Lisbon as it was before the 1755 earthquake. The museum's peaceful setting, with its cloisters ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and ...

Day 1755 and the blind priest had just intoned the Kyrie Eleison in the great cathedral of Seville, the great temple that had been a mosque during the time of the Muslims, when the ...

Some of the best examples of Portuguese architecture can be found in its stunning palaces. They are known for their grandeur ...

A study analyzes the enormous impact of earthquakes on the Mediterranean city, where the population has multiplied sixfold ...

Lisboa, as it is known in Portuguese, is one of the oldest cities in western Europe, where the Mediterranean cuisine and climate, Unesco heritage sites and a thriving nightlife are the top draws ...

Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and ...

An insider guide to Portugal’s thrilling capital, home to surprising cuisine, authentic hospitality and a rich history ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The Lisbon earthquake is the most famous natural disaster in European history. In the space of little more than an hour on the morning of 1 November 1755, while much of the city’s population was at ...