“If we do not change our lives, we may not have any lives left to change”. By António Guterres at the opening of the 2019 Climate Summit in Madrid. We know climate change is not a myth when we see more and more disasters and harsh temperatures. We believe something...
Reading time: 5 minutes Balls were made from rags, racing horses, from sticks, and from tins, cars with wheels made of bottle caps. Imagination was the main technology to make it happen! And now? In the days gone by our grandparents, creativity and the reuse of everyday materials were not yet...
These are odd times, different from everything we were instilled. They said that conviviality was necessary, that walking outside was good for the soul and body, and the affection, so fitting for the approaching day, would be exchanged to show all our love. In one year, all this has...
From the 25th to the 30th of May, the artist ADD FUEL will create a large mural on the side wall of the Mar d’Estórias building in Rua Lançarote de Freitas in Lagos. This initiative is the result of a partnership between LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, Cultural Association,...
Forty-six years of freedom were painted red by the April carnations. On this day, forty-six years ago, you discovered that you were not free, and for the first time, you tasted the freedom of expression, of choice and of simply being free. You have seen the notion of the...
This will be an article dedicated to the delicate objects of mothers and grandmothers. They are seen only once or twice a year, and for the rest of the year, they are inside a fortified and glazed cabinet, from where we can merely glimpse at their whiteness. They have...
Some live anxiously for this season, some surrender because they have children at home and some give a dance to the masks and answer – every day it’s Carnival. There is the most Portuguese carnival in Portugal, there is the five-day carnival, not the three-day one and the most...
In films, books and music, we are bombarded with the theme of love and everything it involves. Love is the Achilles’ heel of any human being. It is that topic that softens the hardest shell, tough to let go, but that we wear as a uniform at work or...
We are people who deal with and respect the sea like no other. We personify the Atlantic like an old friend, we think we know all its shakes of personality. Then there’s a windstorm and we exchange preconceived ideas about him. That is how the sea is, never to be...
A liquid that is not indifferent to any culture, any nationality. It is king in the best diet in the world, the Mediterranean. In the documented history of humanity, it accompanied all the events that made the world change. The tree that gives it life is full of glories,...
Every story has its beginning. For simplicity we could say that a blanket begins at the end of a ball of yarn and ends in a trousseau in a newlyweds’ house. But there is a beginning, a middle, and an end, as well as the protagonists who cannot be...
In the Algarve, from a whitewashed street, a braid with no end is extended, it has a gold colour, but is shy and less vain than the gold-tone. It is a palm tree braid, made by restless and full of conviction hands that gather the leaves of the broom-palm....
The barber’s job counts on a big history already, and the centuries that are part of it are testimonies of this! But, for the record, nowadays, the beard of this profession is trimmed and takes wax so as not to go unkempt. A lot of us are familiar with this...
All good ideas have at least one mentor, but this particular case had two. One was a chemist and the other an importer, they joined their skills and settled in Porto to create the first soap and perfume factory in Portugal in 1887. Ferdinand Claus and Georges Schweder, of German...
Portugal is a small country, in fact, a very tiny country, but it has the peculiarity of being able to multiply by many. Yes, we are many across borders and we take the soul of being Portuguese to any corner of the world. (more…)
Viarco’s name may pass by some people less attentive. It´s a fact that the factory exists since 1907, at that time under the name Portugália, in Vila Do Conde. In 1936 the new factory owner, Manoel Vieira Araújo changed the name to Viarco, a junction of the name of...