Olá bom dia alegria! Tudo bem? If you checked the calendar here, you'll have seen that the European Union is celebrating Europe day today, focusing on unity and long-term peace, commemorating the Schuman Declaration of 1950 that, in part, aimed to make make war between historic rivals France and Germany "not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible". @Filomena Pascoal will honour the day when she joins us at 8.20 today (for a live-stream!) with long-time lover of Portugal Norman, who's been here for around 20 years. Looking forward to meeting him and having our regular Q&A with our favourite Portuguese language and culture teacher. Any questions? Great to have a chat with @Sarah Davie yesterday and have a giggle with her about her dad Keith, and his adventures in Portuguese, see pic! Sarah revealed an interesting plan to walk Portugal, that you might like to help with? The SpartanFX rates are showing a US$ getting you 0.89 Euros and the UK£ buying you nearly 1.18 Euros, a slight improvement for Euro buyers. It's to see some of the community here are popping in to the studio in the morning. Please remember and note that I am available for a quick "Tudo bem?" from 8am every weekday morning here, and in the studio BEFORE I go LIVE or start recording. All Portugal Club members are welcome to use this check-in AND hang out in the studio to observe, ask questions, even join on-screen Looks like wet weather is back as we head to the district of Guarda for the daily IPMA weather check, where there's a 100% chance of rain, a low there of a chilly 5°C/40°F and a 'high' of 13°C/56°F, with rainfall expected throughout the day.

A Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) já publicou a lista de localizações e horários dos seus radares de controlo de velocidade para janeiro de 2025. Sob o mote "Quem o avisa...", a força de segurança divulgou as informações, sublinhando que este planeamento é indicativo e que pode ser "sujeito a alterações pontuais". The Public Security Police (PSP) has already published the list of locations and times of its speed control cameras for January 2025. Under the motto "Who warns...", the security force released the information, highlighting that this planning is indicative and that it may be "subject to occasional changes". AVEIRO 03/jan/25 09h30 Rua Cimo de Vila - Ovar 06/jan/25 08h30 Avenida Europa, junto à Corvauto - Aveiro 07/jan/25 09h30 E.N. 109 Paramos - Espinho 15/jan/25 08h30 Avenida Europa junto à BP - Aveiro 16/jan/25 14h00 Avenida Universidade - Aveiro 17/jan/25 09h30 R. Eng.º José Vitorino Damásio - Santa Maria da Feira 23/jan/24 08h30 Avenida Europa, junto à Corvauto - Aveiro 23/jan/25 09h30 Avª Dr. Renato Araújo - São João da Madeira BEJA 08/jan/25 09h00 Rua Manuel Joaquim Delgado - Beja 15/jan/25 09h00 Rua Manuel Joaquim Delgado - Beja 24/jan/25 09h00 Rua Zeca Afonso - Beja 28/jan/25 09h00 Rua Zeca Afonso - Beja BRAGANÇA 07/jan/25 08h00 N 15 - Mirandela 08/jan/25 08h00 Rua de Vinhais - Bragança 13/jan/25 08h00 Rua Olímpio Guedes de Andrade - Mirandela 29/jan/25 08h00 Quinta de São Lourenço (Cantoneiro) - Bragança BRAGA 10/jan/25 09h00 Circular de Barcelos 14/jan/25 08h30 Variante de Guimarães 14/jan/25 09h00 Avenida Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires (Braga) 16/jan/25 14h00 E.N14 - Vila Nova de Famalicão 16/jan/25 18h00 Avenida Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires (Braga) 22/jan/00 08h30 E.N14 - Vila Nova de Famalicão 22/jan/25 16h00 Avenida António Macedo (Braga) 23/jan/00 14h30 Variante de Guimarães CASTELO BRANCO 07/jan/25 09h30 Rua Luís Augusto Pinto Garcia - Castelo Branco 20/jan/25 08h00 Avenida Infante D. Henrique - Covilhã 22/jan/25 13h30 Rua Adelino Semedo Barata - Castelo Branco

Thank you @Filomena Pascoal, diverte-se todos!

I have been doing some research for a big assignment about Portugal and wanted to share some information and insight about the administrative hierarchy and structure, which I find fascinating. It can be confusing given the linguistic differences, but also with quirks like cities also being districts too! Here's a little guide that I hope will help... The most immediate administrative 'circle', you might think of as your 'parish' is the FREGUESIA, of which there are 3,092, which you can find listed here. Next up is the CONCELHO (or MUNICIPIO), which will be one of Portugal's 308 Municipalities. The Municipalities belong to one of Portugal's 18 DISTRITOS DE PORTUGAL or districts/regions (plus the two antonymous districts/regions of the Açores and Madeira), pictured. The Câmara or Câmara municipal, incidentally, is your town hall or council office, literally the 'municipal chamber', which is your local government machinery, beyond your Junta de Freguesia, (parish assembly) - the first line of civic management. For example, I live in the São Martino do Porto Freguesia, in the Municipality of Alcobaça, which is in the District of Leiria. What about you? (This of course all subject to fact-checking by @António Ferreira!)

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