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Central Portugal: room to live, money to spare
But before choosing one of these destinations, ask yourself: what do you actually want? If the answer includes financial breathing room, safety, space, fresh air and a slower daily rhythm, inland Central Portugal deserves serious attention. Towns such as Sertã, Tomar, Figueiró dos Vinhos and Pedrógão Grande offer an alternative to the familiar expatriate destinations promoted in glossy magazines and on estate agency websites.
Summer in Central Portugal: a different kind of tourism
Then July arrives, August follows, and suddenly the café tables are full, the village festas are underway, cars with French, Swiss, British, Dutch and Belgian number plates appear everywhere, and houses that were empty all winter have their shutters thrown open. For its size, Portugal continues to attract extraordinary numbers of visitors. This July, the country recorded 3.4 million guests and 9.6 million overnight stays, with overall tourism revenue continuing to rise.
Buying an approved project
It suggests that the difficult part has already been done: the Câmara (town hall) has said yes, the plans are approved and all the new buyer has to do is start building. Things are rarely that simple. Sometimes an approved project genuinely can save a buyer many months of administration and significantly reduce development risk. In other cases, however, the phrase is little more than optimistic shorthand used to try and justify a higher asking price.
Deep Purple are in their seventh decade. They've sold 120 million albums. And they still have things to say. "There was no joy, no happiness on stage. I don't blame any one person for it, but Ithink we know who we're talking about"
“Absolutely, we’re having a great time,” Gillan affirms, just as enthusiastically. “I couldn’t help but laugh, it was so joyful.” (Image credit: Olag Heine) Splat! arrives relatively hot on the heels of its predecessor, =1, which was the first Deep Purple record with their new guitarist, Irishman Simon McBride, who stepped into the breach left by Steve Morse’s departure.
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Rural Portugal’s housing revolution
Like many people who fall in love with Portugal’s interior, I was captivated by the stone cottages, farmhouses and elegant townhouses that had stood empty for decades. Behind the cracked walls, leaking roofs and collapsing floors lay an opportunity not only to restore buildings, but also to help revive communities. That belief remains as strong today as it was then. What has changed is our understanding of Portugal’s housing challenge. It is not a shortage of buildings. It is a shortage of homes.
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Rock Music Menu Summer Essentials: Best books for the beach and beyond Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Any question that summer hadn’t quite arrived was vanquished this week with temperatures creeping into extreme heat warning territory. And when the forecast is calling for triple digits, maybe it’s best not to go anywhere that’s not located directly in front of an air conditioner’s airflow.
A new type of rural home for Central Portugal
That dream is still very much alive. But it is no longer the only answer. Across the region, buyers are changing. Some still want a traditional renovation project, but many want something more practical: a warm, insulated, legally built, energy-efficient home that can be occupied without two or more years of uncertainty and delay. They want rural Portugal, but they do not want damp walls, poor heating, unclear permissions, decrepit electrics, or an open-ended renovation budget.
"He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship": The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
The white-hot success of their first single, Sultans Of Swing, and self-titled debut album was founded on the elder Knopfler’s fluid, finger-picked guitar style, which sounded as lovely as a bubbling stream. Theirs was no fleeting moment, either, with three more hit records following before they reached their apogee on their fifth studio album, Brothers In Arms. That record was unstoppable from the moment of its release in May 1985.
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How Toto used a flute riff to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Angelo Deligio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images It’s the summer of 1981. Toto have been hastened into Sunset Sound, their recording studio of choice in their native Hollywood, to make their fourth album. Their third, Turn Back, had come out just six months earlier and wasn’t a great success – No.41 in the US at its best, and without a hit single.
"It's the silliest, most oddball song in our entire catalogue, but it truly hit a nerve." How Toto used a synthesised flute riff and a drum loop to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon
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Central Portugal: still the best-value property region in a rising market
According to idealista’s April 2026 house price index, the median asking price for homes in Portugal reached a new record of €3,121 per square metre, up 10.8% compared with April 2025. This is the sixth consecutive month in which national asking prices have reached a new historic high. For buyers, that headline number can sound daunting while sellers are delighted. Perhaps the more interesting story lies beneath the national average.
In 1992, Mick Jagger made a blues album with an obscure LA bar band. It’s never been released
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Frank Hempel/United Archives via Getty Images/Frans Schellekens/Redferns In the spring of 1992, Mick Jagger was in Los Angeles preparing his third solo album with Rick Rubin. Jagger’s two previous efforts outside of the Rolling Stones, 1985’s She’s The Boss and 1987’s Primitive Cool, had been little loved and fast forgotten. He’d brought in Rubin to lend him some much-needed credibility.
“There was a lot of smack and really scuzzy groupies around. It was ugly”: Traffic’s spiralling demise sent Steve Winwood driving his Rolls-Royce into the sunset
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“Paul Kossoff had gotten addicted to these heavy sedatives. Some nights he wasn’t functioning”: This cult British singer grew up with Robert Plant, worked with The Doors, and nearly joined Free and Deep Purple – but today no one knows his name
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The sleeping giant of Barqueiros
Solar Barqueiros, a joint listing between Rural Properties and The Agency, sits decisively in the latter category with embedded options that can materially improve returns if handled intelligently. Located near the coast in the town of Barqueiros, in the Barcelos area, approximately 30 minutes north of Porto Airport, the property comprises around 800m² across three floors, set within 2.4 hectares of level pasture land.
Library books
These new works about music history are available at the Allen County Public Library. “On the Record: Music That Changed America” by Anna Harwell Celenza Across two centuries of American life, this historical analysis traces how influential songs and compositions shaped politics, social movements, and cultural change, underscoring music’s role in challenging injustice and defining national identity.
Property Highlight – History reimagined
The company has secured an important historic mansion on Rua 5 de Outubro, a prominent street in the town’s centre, with the objective of transforming the approximately 900 m² structure into a collection of apartments that respect the building’s heritage while adapting it for modern living.
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Central Portugal reels from February storms – Portugal Resident
A chain of Atlantic depressions, led by Storm Kristin at the end of January and followed by further storm systems in early February, brought a punishing mix of extreme wind, intense rainfall and river flooding that hit the districts of Leiria, Coimbra, Aveiro and Castelo Branco particularly hard. The most eye-catching headline figure so far is the government’s emerging estimate that reconstruction could exceed €6 billion, spanning homes, factories and public infrastructure.
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Why the world is seeing a lot of Bruce Springsteen
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The rural property gold rush – hype or reality? – Portugal Resident
As prices reach record levels in these key areas, attention has turned inland with Central Portugal and the Alentejo now being portrayed as the next great property ‘gold rush’ for foreign buyers seeking space, value and a slower pace of life. But is the countryside really booming, or is the reality more complex than the headlines suggest? There is no doubt that international interest has grown.
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“He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
The simple facts are these: Knopfler formed Dire Straits in London in 1977 with his younger brother David on rhythm guitar, John Illsley on bass and Pick Withers on drums. Emerging from the city’s fertile pub-rock scene at the dawn of the punk era, they were an overnight sensation. The white-hot success of their first single, Sultans Of Swing, and self-titled debut album was founded on the elder Knopfler’s fluid, finger-picked guitar style, which sounded as lovely as a bubbling stream.
The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
Generate Key Takeaways When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Goedefroit Music/Getty Images Best of 2025: To mark the 40th anniversary of their hit album Brothers In Arms, we republished this 2015 account of Dire Straits' multi-platinum albums – a story of fraternal rivalry and the high cost of fame. At 10.10pm on October 9, 1992, Mark Knopfler bid goodnight to 40,000 people and walked off stage in Zaragoza, Spain.
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He played with Traffic, Hendrix and Free. But this doomed musician has been all but forgotten today
Generate Key Takeaways When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images On April 24, 1983, Chris Wood cut what would be his final piece of music. Recorded in Birmingham, his first stomping ground and now his last harbour, what was put on to tape that day carried an air of fragile, wounded beauty.
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Central Portugal comes of age
Encouraged by a successful government scheme to support couples trying to buy their first home, an increasing number of under-35s have stopped renting in cities and bought their first home in Portugal’s interior, adding to a regional demand for property that had been the preserve of expatriates, retirees and holiday-home buyers.
Rural property in Portugal: what buyers forget
Portugal’s landscapes indeed are stunning and its traditional architecture irresistible, yet behind the dream lies a complex legal and practical reality that can catch a buyer by surprise. As more foreigners explore the idea of purchasing old farmhouses, abandoned villages, off-grid plots or traditional estates, there is a need for objective information and clarity on what can and cannot be done. This, and other myths, need to be exposed.
“It’s hard to watch a friend face down their demons in front of you and come off second best”: The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity
A snapshot of Chris Whitley performing at a poky club in downtown Manhattan; he’s wearing the exact same clothes as earlier that afternoon when I’d interviewed him at a Greenwich Village coffee shop: white singlet, skin-tight jeans and tatty sneakers. He’d seemed to me a gentle, fragile soul, soft-spoken but also jittery and intense, chugging espressos and chain-soaking Marlboros.
The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan - but ran from fame and died in obscurity
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Central Portugal is noticeably slower-paced with people in tune with the seasons, shopping at local markets, and enjoying a real sense of community. You’ll hear the church bells marking the hours, rather than the rush of traffic. Days are often shaped around simple pleasures, a walk in the forest, a dip in a river, or a leisurely meal with friends and neighbors.
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Back to business for The Black Keys - serving their audience and paying the bills
Generate Key Takeaways When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Larry Niehues Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, collectively The Black Keys, couldn’t telegraph their present state of mind any clearer than they do on the opening, and title, track of their forthcoming thirteenth album together. Chiming keyboards usher in a ringing guitar melody, a gambolling rhythm on its heels.
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Generate Key Takeaways When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Deborah Feingold It’s spring 1985 in Britain. The coal miners have ended a rancorous, year-long dispute with Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. In the wake of the Heysel Stadium riot, in which 39 people died and 600 were injured, English football clubs are banned indefinitely from competing in Europe.
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