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- This CCB festival has Kate Bush for kids and a sound walk through the territory of a bear, a vulture and a whale
- This weekend in Lisbon: Cuca Monga at Palácio Pimenta, 70 stalls in Marvila and a free vinyl fair in Benfica
- Lisbon Fashion Week is almost entirely invitation only. One show on Rua Augusta is not
- How to get into Web Summit without paying €995 for a ticket
- Going to Palmela next weekend? The castle turns medieval for three days
- The 7 world premieres in Braga's Semibreve line-up this October
- What's on in Portugal this weekend: 10 days of open heritage start on Friday
- Formula 1 is back in the Algarve in June 2027 (and tickets open on Monday)
- This island spends four days re-enacting Columbus. The 2026 programme has just landed
- The film opening Doclisboa was built from archive, fiction and AI
- 123 stalls and 400 authors fill the Belém palace gardens from 17 September
- This Rolling Stone plays Lisbon on Monday, and Imelda May comes with him
- The Neighbourhood play Lisbon on Saturday. Doors at half six, band on at eight
- Free this weekend in Portugal? Alfama puts fado on ten stages and the Feiras Novas turn 200
- Four days of onions, horses and street food in Portalegre
- Sigur Rós play Porto with an orchestra and a choir. Tickets start at €40
- A dance festival built around the moment it all gets too much opens in Góis on 18 September
- Portugal's biggest vegan fair is back in Loulé — three days, 100-plus free activities
- What's worth the drive in Portugal this weekend, from Faro's old town to a Palmela wine press
- Porto Santo hands its streets back to Columbus for four days this September
- Pre-1986 Formula 1 cars race at Estoril from 18 September (and the grandstand is free)
- Going to Nazaré in September? The town's festas move back to the Terreiro after 27 years
- This Campo Pequeno date is the first night of Placebo's 30th-anniversary tour
- Going to Lisbon's comedy festival this weekend? Here are the seven shows and when they start
- What's on in Portugal this weekend? Five picks, and three of them are free
- Four more nights of free concerts on Cascais bay, and then it's over
- Viseu gets its first Rock & Dão festival in September, and a day ticket now costs €40
- What's on at MOTELx for its 20th birthday? More than 170 films, 40 countries, 11 days
- Going to the Algarve this week? FATACIL has a headliner every night, and entry is €5
- Leiria's goth festival runs to Saturday, and 11 of its 23 shows are free
- Three places worth the drive this weekend (and one day you'll want to stay in)
- Twelve actors play 41 parts in Come From Away, which opens in Lisbon on 10 September
- Amarante's arts biennial runs ten shows over ten days, and every one is free
- Going to Viana this week? The Romaria d'Agonia saves the Mordomia parade and the sea procession for Wednesday and Thursday
- Braga's Noite Branca returns for three nights in September, and none of it costs anything
- Porto's book fair runs 17 days this year, and 20 of its concerts are free
- This almost-400-year-old fair in Grândola has five nights of music from 27 August
- 6 festivals on across Portugal this holiday weekend. Four of them are in their last days
- Seven days of São Bartolomeu in Ponte da Barca, and one night when 80-plus rusgas take the street
- 14 days of romaria in Lamego, and Xutos & Pontapés open it on 27 August
- Fire risk has moved Portugal's main eclipse viewing site to an airfield outside Bragança
- This 200-year-old Minho romaria takes over Ponte de Lima from 9 to 14 September
- 7 nights left at Trancoso's São Bartolomeu fair, and Xutos & Pontapés play Wednesday
- Maré de Agosto opens on a clifftop at sunset. The other three nights run till dawn on the beach
- Viseu's São Mateus fair runs for 31 days and most tickets cost 5 euros
- Portugal gets one patch of total eclipse on 12 August, and it is a village road in Bragança
- 5 things to do in Portugal this weekend, from Faial to the Algarve
- One Portuguese beach dips its children in the sea three times every 24 August
- Megadeth close their farewell tour in Lisbon. General sale opens Friday at 10am
- Portugal's free eclipse glasses are gone. A €3 certified pair does exactly the same job
- 202 stalls, 12 themed areas and six days left at Santa Maria da Feira's medieval festival
- The Azores' biggest music festival takes over a black-sand beach this Thursday
- Festival Iminente 2026 has its lineup and tickets, and it takes over Marvila from 17 September
- David Guetta plays Loures tonight, so check the timings before you leave the house
- Bragança's Festa da História runs 14-17 August and turns the castle medieval
- Castro Marim's Medieval Days have dates and tickets — five days of jousts, fire and feasting
- Alcobaça's São Bernardo fair runs 20 to 24 August and it still costs nothing to walk in
- Noites dos Jardins do Palácio has its dates and tickets — Porto, 11 and 12 September
- Andanças 2026 has dates and tickets, and it's four days of dancing in Reguengos de Monsaraz
- What's on across Portugal on 1 and 2 August, from Peniche's festa to a Porto craft market
- Lisboa Mágica returns 18 to 23 August with 175 free shows across 13 squares and gardens
- Festa do Avante turns 50 in September, and the three-day ticket still costs 35 euros
- Indie Music Fest 2026 is back in Baltar this September, and day one is free
- Góis holds its town festival from 7 to 12 August, and Tony Carreira opens it for 5 euros
- Guimarães is deep in the Gualterianas until 3 August, and the big concerts cost nothing
- Milagre Metaleiro has its full line-up and tickets out, and Paradise Lost are heading to a village near Viseu
- São Bento da Porta Aberta fills the Gerês from 10 to 15 August, and the programme for its great pilgrimage is out
- Semana do Mar 2026 has its dates and line-up, and Horta fills up from 31 July to 9 August
- Tickets for Festival de Arronches 2026 are out and a day pass costs 10 euros
- Festival F 2026 has its line-up, dates and tickets — Slow J and Carminho close out summer in Faro
- What's on this weekend in Portugal, from Sines to Cascais
- August packs Portugal with festivals, from Paredes de Coura to Kalorama
- Barrelas Summer Fest 2026 has its lineup and dates — Xutos, dEUS and Apocalyptica land in Vila Nova de Paiva
- Vila do Conde's Curtas short film festival hits its final stretch — cinema through Sunday
- The Perseids peak on 12 August. Look northeast after midnight, and leave the telescope at home
- Silves Medieval Fair runs 7 to 15 August — and tickets still cost just 2 euros
- The Festas do Mar 2026 line-up is out — Daniela Mercury, Dillaz and David Fonseca play Cascais for free
- The Festas de Loures run free from 23 to 26 July — four days of concerts on Lisbon's doorstep
- Vodafone Paredes de Coura 2026 has its day-by-day lineup and tickets out — M.I.A. and Underworld head to the Taboão
- Crato Festival 2026 tickets are on sale — four days of music for 45 euros if you buy by July 31
- Lamego's Festas dos Remédios have dates and a line-up — and the party runs two weeks
- Sol da Caparica 2026 has locked its lineup and tickets are on sale — four beach days of Lusophone music
- FMM Sines 2026 is already on — and a good chunk of the concerts are free
- Bons Sons 2026 has its lineup and tickets out — a whole Portuguese village turns 20-year festival from 6 to 9 August
- MEO Kalorama 2026 has its lineup and tickets — Robbie Williams opens on 28 August
- Vagos Metal Fest 2026 has its full lineup and day tickets from 69 euros — five days of metal at Quinta do Ega
- Feira de São Mateus returns to Viseu, August 6 to September 6 — Fernando Daniel, Plutónio and Calema lead the first names
- Olhão's Festival do Marisco 2026 lineup and tickets are out — Mariza, Calema and Daniela Mercury, August 10-15
- What's on in Portugal this weekend? Marés Vivas, FMM in Porto Covo and a World Cup final
- Gualterianas 2026 has its programme and dates — GNR, Bárbara Bandeira and Dillaz in Guimarães, 24 July to 3 August
- Paredes de Coura 2026 day-by-day lineup is out — tickets start at 60 euros
- Romaria d'Agonia 2026 has its dates and programme — 15 to 23 August, in Viana do Castelo
- Apúlia's Senhora da Guia festival has its dates: 5 to 16 August, and the candle procession is the one to catch
- Neopop 2026 has its line-up, dates and tickets — and it turns 20 by going back to being Antipop
- FACECO 2026: São Teotónio hosts Odemira's 34th fair, July 16–19
- Festival dos Canais 2026: Aveiro fills with free open-air art from July 15 to 19
- Sardine Festival 2026: Praia do Pedrógão grills the queen of summer, 16-19 July
- Vaudeville Rendez-Vous 2026: free contemporary circus takes over five Minho cities
- Silves Beer Fest 2026 is over (it ran in July, free entry). The Medieval Fair has Silves now, 7 to 15 August
- Ageas Cooljazz 2026: David Byrne, Jamiroquai and free Sundays headline the week in Cascais
- Mafra Bread Festival: final weekend at Jardim do Cerco, free entry
- Mirandela festas 2026: Nossa Senhora do Amparo festivities run 23 July to 2 August
- Loulé Jazz 2026: 30th edition brings Andy Sheppard and a Coltrane tribute
- AgitAgueda 2026: colourful umbrellas and 150+ free shows in Agueda until 26 July
- Viagem Medieval 2026: Portugal's biggest medieval festival runs July 29 to August 9
- Medieval fairs in Portugal, July 2026: from Mões to Óbidos, where to time-travel
- This weekend in Portugal: what to do on 11-12 July, from Algés to Porto
- NOS Alive 2026 kicks off today in Algés with Twenty One Pilots and Florence + The Machine
- Faro Motorcycle Rally 2026: UB40, Rui Veloso and Xutos headline Vale das Almas, 16-19 July
- Festas do Almonda 2026: five free nights of music in Torres Novas through Sunday
- The full Vilar de Mouros 2026 line-up — Kasabian, Ben Harper and Yungblud in Caminha, 18–22 August
- Did you need tickets for Festival da Comida Continente 2026? No — entry in Porto was free
- NOS Alive 2026 starts Thursday: tickets, headliners and how to get to Algés
- Plutonio at Alvalade Stadium: tickets on sale for the 5 June 2027 concert
- Óbidos Medieval Market 2026: dates, tickets and what to expect from the 24th edition
- Festas da Cidade da Maia 2026: programme, line-up and dates until 13 July
- Jardins do Marquês 2026: line-up and closing night in Oeiras (26 Jun–6 Jul)
- Evil Live fills Lisbon's MEO Arena with rock and metal this Sunday
- Ageas CoolJazz returns to Cascais: Jamiroquai, Diana Krall and sunsets in the park
- Festas da Cidade de Rebordosa: four days of festivities in the heart of Paredes
- Douro & Porto Wine Festival: two days of wine with a river view
- LISB-ON brings electronic music to green Monsanto this weekend
- Portugal Fashion Experience takes over Porto from 1 to 4 July
- MEO Marés Vivas 2026 moves north with a strong lineup
- Colete Encarnado 2026: line-up, concerts and dates in Vila Franca de Xira
- NOS Alive 2026: the lineup set to fill Algés in July
- Festival July: what is coming from north to south
- The Weeknd in Lisbon: the big September show now has a date
- São Pedro festivities light up Vila Pouca de Aguiar until 5 July
- Sumol Summer Fest 2026: line-up, tickets and dates in Costa da Caparica
- São Pedro in Caíde de Rei: Lousada is in full swing until 5 July
- RFM Somnii: the biggest summer party lights up Figueira da Foz beach
- Afro Nation returns to Portimão from July 3 to 5
- Iron Maiden land at Estádio da Luz on July 7
- NOS Alive 2026: three days of festival in Alges, July 9-11
- Beach party: electronic music in Matosinhos this weekend
- Rock in Rio Lisboa closes today: the final day of the party
- July is heavy-rock month in Lisbon: Iron Maiden, Scorpions and Marilyn Manson in town
- Festival Músicas do Mundo: Sines and Porto Covo become the planet's sound capital, July 17–25
- Festas Grandes do Senhor dos Aflitos: Lousada is already counting down
- Lousada's Grand Festivities 2026
- Tâmega e Sousa health service among the country's fastest A&E
- Discovering the Romanesque: a guide to the Route in Lousada
- Lousada entre Páginas — Book Fair 2026
- Lousada in brief: a newcomer's guide
- Where to find Lousada's cultural calendar