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...It passes through, among other charming seaside villages, Vila do Conde, with its imposing 14th-century Convent of Santa Clara, and Viana do Castelo, where the hilltop Basilica of Santa Luzia is a neat little...
...The historic Castelo de Palmela dominates the landscape south of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon....
...“Restaurants, museums, shows — tourism in Madrid involves closed spaces and people may be afraid of that,” said Verónica García Castelo, who runs the five-star Heritage Madrid Hotel in the smart Salamanca...
...Verónica García Castelo’s family history echoes that of the Spanish tourism industry — and its changing ambitions....
...The hundreds of paperbacks along the wall feature a variety of classics from the Portuguese canon — works by the likes of Camilo Castelo Branco, Luís de Camões and Eça de Queirós....
...Before Castelo dos Sonhos, about 600km into our journey, we come across José Neto, a driver who is desperately using a makeshift bucket-and-rope shovel, as well as his own hands, to try to recover the two...
...Yes, real life is strung across the first of the films, starting with footage from the shipyard in Viana do Castelo, where thousands are to lose their jobs....
...We repair for lunch at Casa do Castelo, where I learn about the Serra da Estrela’s famous Queijo da Serra, a sublimely gooey sheep’s cheese that beats Vacherin and Camembert at their own game....
...Housed in an 18th-century, baroque-style building in the northern Portuguese town of Penalva do Castelo, the Parador Casa da Ínsua has 35 rooms, impressive gardens boasting 32 varieties of camellia, and...
...Why Portuguese television personality José Castelo Branco claims he came close to buying the property in the 1980s but was put off when a “ghost” tried to push him off the edge of the terrace....
...On the deck of the Viana do Castelo, the weather had improved enough to begin a training exercise simulating a search-and- rescue operation....
...Isabel Castelo Branco, Treasury secretary, said the government was “working actively” on a return to the bond market early next year and was registering “growing investor interest” for a new issue....
...Isabel Castelo Branco, Portugal’s Treasury secretary, has said the government is “working actively” on a return to the bond market early next year and was registering “growing investor interest” for a new...
...Gonçalo Torres, whose work as an events organiser requires frequent motorway driving, says the 220km journey from Castelo Branco to Lisbon costs him more in toll charges than it does in fuel....
...However, Ms Castelo Marín says Spanish companies’ experience in the Brazilian market will always make them an attractive bidder....
...“There have been situations where the worker receives less than the minimum monthly salary, which is in clear violation of the constitution,” said deputy Sabino Castelo Branco from the PTB party, who proposed...
...The upwards spiral in warehouse rents in São Paulo has been driven by increasing demand for storage space close to major highways such as Castelo Branco from consumer goods companies, such as Sony and Unilever...
...The first lasts 4½ hours, is based on a 19th-century novel by Camilo Castelo Branco and is at times a parody of the picaresque epic narrative based on orphanhood, mistaken identity and stories-within-stories...
...Viana do Castelo is the site of its first wind energy cluster....
...After retiring in 1951, Cintrón married Francisco de Castelo Branco, a Portuguese aristocrat and nephew of Ruy da Cámara....
...This is one of the main draws for companies such as Portuguese developer Lisop, which built the Terraços de Castelo apartments and villas in western Sesimbra and is now working on the €30m Sesimbra Bay Beach...
...In the northern port of Viana do Castelo, close to the wind farms of the Alto Minho, workers on the dockside manoeuvre enormous rotor blades, concrete tower segments and other wind turbine components, readying...
...Located on the top floor of Bulgari’s stone-clad 1950’s headquarters on the banks of the Tiber, Mr Bulgari’s design studio – unlike similar workplaces in Switzerland – overlooks St Peter’s Basilica and the Castelo...
...“The hope was a slowing economy would give industry time to expand capacity and avoid bottlenecks, but with falling investments that won't happen,” said Flávio Castelo Branco, chief economist with the industry...
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