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Rádio Condestável | MAÇÃO: Oradores do Congresso dos Transportes partilharam experiências #Desporto

Hot News No passado domingo, dia 27 de setembro, recebemos-o na 3ª edição do Congresso dos Transportes. Este é um evento que reúne dezenas de especialistas de diversos ramos da área dos transportes e conta com a participação de especialistas de Abrantes, Alcanena, Constância, Entroncamento, Mação, Torres Novas, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Ferreira do Zêzere, Ourém, Sardoal e Tomar e pretendem…

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Estudantes do ensino superior podem continuar a ficar alojados em Pousadas da Juventude

Os estudantes do ensino superior vão continuar a poder ficar alojados em Pousadas da Juventude e o número de unidades disponíveis vai passar de 19 para 22, indica a Movijovem.

O protocolo de renovação de colaboração entre o Governo, a Movijovem e o INATEL que vai permitir ceder 673 camas das Pousadas de Juventude e 36 camas da rede do INATEL vai ser assinado na quarta-feira, refere a nota.

De acordo com a Movijovem, o programa ficará disponível em unidades de Aveiro, Abrantes, Almada, Beja, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Évora, Faro, Guarda, Guimarães, Lisboa Centro, Lisboa Parque das Nações, Oeiras, Portimão, Portalegre, Porto, Santa Cruz, Viana do Castelo, Ponte de Lima, Vila do Conde e Vila Nova de Cerveira.

Integrado no Plano Nacional para o Alojamento no Ensino Superior, este programa visa mitigar a escassez de opções habitacionais para estudantes em diversas regiões do país.

A questão do alojamento é um dos maiores problemas dos estudantes universitários deslocados, com rendas médias de 386 euros no Porto e de 480 euros em Lisboa, segundo representantes dos estudantes.

Nas contas mensais dos jovens, o alojamento representa a fatia mais pesada, segundo os resultados do Inquérito às Condições Socioeconómicas e Académicas dos Estudantes do Ensino Superior, promovido e financiado pela Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior.

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Memórias deste Dia: 4 de Dezembro

Playlist com vídeos deste dia 2022 Estrada Nacional 2 – Portugal Miranda do Corvo – Hotel Parque Serra da Lousã Lousã – Visita ao Castelo e à Vila Lousã – Cerdeira: Aldeia do Xisto Sertã – Pedrógão Pequeno Passeio pela vila da Sertã Vila de Rei – Marco Geodésico Abrantes – Luna Hotel Turismo Anos Anteriores Booking.com

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O Exército Português anunciou recentemente a abertura do Concurso Público para admissão de Praças em Regime de Contrato Especial (RCE). O prazo de receção de candidaturas termina a 24 de abril de 2023. O concurso destina-se a 14 áreas profissionais, nomeadamente alimentação, eletricidade, gestão equina, informática, logística militar, mecânica auto, mecânica de armamento, mecânica de carroçarias, mecânica de eletrónica, multimédia, música, refrigeração e climatização, secretariado e transportes. O Curso do RCE para a Categoria de Praças é associado a uma qualificação de Nível 4, do Quadro Nacional de Qualificações, decorrente do acordo de cooperação entre o Exército Português e o Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP). O RCE permite formação profissional certificada, desempenho de cargos especializados, maior estabilidade geográfica e vínculo contratual até 14 anos. O concurso visa suprir necessidades específicas em unidades militares nas seguintes 29 localidades: Angra do Heroísmo, Abrantes, Aveiro, Beja, Benavente, Braga, Caldas da Rainha, Chaves, Coimbra, Elvas, Entroncamento, Espinho, Estremoz, Évora, Funchal, Lamego, Leiria, Lisboa, Mafra, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Santa Margarida, Tancos, Tavira, Tomar, Vendas Novas, Vila Real e Viseu. Para mais informações e formalização de candidatura, os interessados devem aceder à página https://www.exercito.pt/pt/junta-te/rce. Este é uma oportunidade para quem deseja uma carreira militar e se identifica com as áreas profissionais mencionadas.

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Filho de Kelly Cyclone morre durante confronto com policiais

Filho de Kelly Cyclone morre durante confronto com policiais

O filho de Kelly Sales Silva, conhecida como Kelly Cyclone, morreu na manhã desta quinta-feira (8) durante um confronto com policiais militares, em Vila de Abrantes, em Camaçari, Região Metropolitana de Salvador (RMS). Cauan Salles Silva, tinha 18 anos, e teria sido morto dentro da própria casa. O Portal entrou em contato com a Polícia Civil, mas a instituição afirmou que a ação que resultou na…

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Camaçari, a cidade dos paraísos na Bahia

Camaçari, a cidade dos paraísos na Bahia

De point da Tropicália a um dos principais centros econômicos da Bahia, Camaçari é detentora de paraísos bastante cobiçados pelos turistas. Integrante da Costa dos Coqueiros, a cidade está distante cerca de 50 quilômetros de Salvador e é envolta por 42 quilômetros de belas praias margeadas por coqueirais. Foto: Reprodução | Correo 24 Horas Busca Vida, Arembepe, Barra do Jacuípe, Guarajuba e…

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INCÊNDIOS DEFLAGRAM EM CHAINÇA (ABRANTES) - FUNDADA (VILA DE REI) - MOSTEIRO E ROLÃ (SERTÃ)

INCÊNDIOS DEFLAGRAM EM CHAINÇA (ABRANTES) – FUNDADA (VILA DE REI) – MOSTEIRO E ROLà(SERTÃ)

O inicio desta tarde revela-se propicio ao surgimento de focos de incêndio, com as temperaturas altas e vento a soprar moderado, os mesmos deflagram em Chainça (Abrantes) pelas 14:01 Horas, em Rolã (Sertã) pelas 14:47 horas, em Fundada (Vila de Rei) pelas 14:50 horas e em Mosteiro (Sertã) pelas 15:01 horas, todos em povoamento florestal, com as forças da Protecção civil a ocorrerem às várias…

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“E o sol, a gente, o campo e a cidade

(...)

E a alma imensa de um povo sem idade.

Não mudes, tu meu povo, que eu não mudo.”

  - João Chora, em “Fado do Ribatejo”

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Leonor Teles, Queen of Portugal (wife of King Fernando I of Portugal)

Tenure: 5 May 1372 – 22 October 1383 Regent: 1383 - 1384

Leonor Teles (or Teles de Meneses) (1350 – 27 April 1386 or 1405) was queen consort of Portugal by marriage to King Fernando I, and one of the protagonists, along with her brothers and her daughter Beatriz, of the events that led to the succession crisis of 1383–1385, which culminated in the defeat of her son-in-law King Juan I of Castile and his armies in the Battle of Aljubarrota. Called "the Treacherous" (a Aleivosa) by her subjects, who execrated her on account of her adultery and treason to her native country, she was dubbed by the historian Alexandre Herculano as "the Portuguese Lucrezia Borgia".

The date or place of Leonor's and her siblings' birth is not recorded in any document. According to some sources, she was born in Trás-os-Montes because King Fernando I on 3 January 1375 donated Vila Real to his wife "for being a native of the province of Tralosmontes". If so, she would be the first queen of Portugal born in that country. Yet, her parents lived in Castile from 1340 and it was between that year and 1356 when the children of the marriage were born, as well as the illegitimate daughter; there are no sources that mention the births or the early years of the siblings.This is the reason Portuguese historian Ferro Tavares suspects the place of her birth was actually in Castilian territory and that the birthplace was changed on purpose. According to this hypothesis, the place of origin was moved to a Portuguese location in order to stress the political detachment he made from the Franco-Castilian diplomatic bloc in the Hundred Years' War with such a marriage. This situation is complicated by the fact Leonor's family held lands and tenancies in Portuguese territory, which makes the thesis of Trás-os-Montes still viable,

A member of the lineage of the Teles de Meneses, an important family originally from Tierra de Campos, Leonor's father Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses, a Portuguese nobleman, mayordomo mayor and alleged lover of Queen Maria de Portugal, the wife of King Alfonso XI of Castile, was assassinated in 1356 by orders of King Pedro. Leonor's mother was Aldonça Eanes de Vasconcelos, daughter and heiress of João Mendes de Vasconcelos and Aldara Afonso Alcoforado.

Leonor had three full-siblings: two brothers—João Afonso Telo (6th Count of Barcelos, mayor of Lisbon in 1372 and admiral of the Portuguese kingdom around 1375, who died in the Battle of Aljubarrota) and Gonçalo Teles de Meneses (Count of Neiva and Lord de Faria)—and a sister—María Teles de Meneses, who was married first to Alvaro Dias de Sousa and then to João of Portugal, an illegitimate half-brother of Leonor's husband King Fernando I. María was murdered in 1379 by her second husband, who accused her of adultery; historians suspect that Leonor, fearing for the succession of her daughter Beatriz and her own position as regent, was involved in the crime. Maria was a lady-in-waiting of her sister-in-law Beatriz of Portugal,

 and introduced Leonor to King Fernando I, who fell passionately in love with her, when she visited her sister in court.

Leonor also had an illegitimate paternal half-sister, Juana Teles de Meneses. Leonor arranged her marriage to Juan Alfonso Pimentel, first Count of Benavente, who supported the cause of the Castilian king during the succession crisis and was exiled to that kingdom.

Leonor was also the niece of João Afonso Telo, fourth Count of Barcelos and first Count of Ourém, whose daughter, Leonor, was the wife of Pedro de Castro "The One-eyed", son of Álvaro Pires de Castro, Count of Arraiolos, Lord de Cadaval and Ferreira, Constable of Portugal, and brother of Inês de Castro, mistress (and alleged secret wife) of King Pedro I of Portugal. The Teles de Meneses and the Castros were among the most powerful and influential families in the kingdoms of Leon, Castile and Portugal.

In 1365, Leonor had wed João Lourenço da Cunha, 2nd Lord of Pombeiro, to whom she was still married when she met King Fernando I of Portugal. Two children were born of her union with João Lourenço: a daughter who died in infancy, and a son Alvaro da Cunha, heir to the lordship of his father. According to the later chronicler Fernão Lopes, Leonor abandoned her son when she married King Fernando I, making him pose as the son of Lope Dias de Sousa and a "woman member of his household named Elvira", calling him Alvaro de Sousa, so that she could "pretend to be a virgin for the king, saying that her husband had never slept with her". King Fernando I subsequently attempted to obtain the annulment of Leonor's first marriage on the grounds of consanguinity, in order to preserve the legitimacy of their daughter, Beatriz of Portugal. The jurist João das Regras claimed, in one of the arguments he made before the courts of Coimbra in 1385 after King Fernando I died, that Leonor was not free to marry another man because the needed papal dispensation had been secured (a fact that the king concealed) and her mother's first marriage was therefore valid, meaning Beatrice was illegitimate. The Coimbra courts determined that, since all pretenders to the throne, that is, the sons of Inês de Castro and the master of Aviz, were illegitimate, the dynastic line had been severed and the people, through their representatives, could choose a new king.

Before marrying Leonor, several marriage negotiations were made for the infante, who became King Fernando I. In 1358 a marriage between him and Beatrice, the first-born daughter of King Pedro I of Castile, was considered but never took place. In 1364 the marriage of Ferdinand to Infanta Joana of Aragon, daughter of King Pedro IV was negotiated, and years later, in late 1369, a marriage to another daughter of the Aragonese king, Infanta Leonor was also pursued, but neither of these marriages came to pass. In 1371 King Fernando I suffered a defeat when he invaded Galicia; one of the stipulations of the Treaty of Alcoutim was his marriage to Infanta Leoanor, daughter of King Henry II of Castile. Any of these marriages would have pleased the Portuguese people, although the last one, according to the stipulations in the Treaty of Alcoutim, could imply "a threat to the sovereignty of the Portuguese Kingdom". Fernando I broke his betrothal to the Castilian infanta  and on 5 May 1372, the official wedding was celebrated away from the court in the small town of Leça do Balio. 

From the beginning, João and Dinis of Portugal, the sons of Inês de Castro and half-brothers of the king, showed their rejection of both this marriage and the "rise of Leonor and her relatives"

King Fernando had given Leonor in the arras charter of January 1372 several cities, all associated with the lordships of the queens of Portugal, among them Abrantes, Alenquer, Torres Vedras, Vila Viçosa, Almada, Sintra, Atouguia, Óbidos, Sacavém, Frielas and Unhos, which also included their houses, ports, fishmongers, royal rights, and other goods, and in April of the same year he also gave her Aveiro. The king was generous to Leonor because she had not brought any dowry to the marriage, since legally, the wife lost her dowry in favor of the deserted husband, and "her family had not yet recovered financially from the loss of the first dowry". In 1374, Leonor exchanged Vila Viçosa for Vila Real de Trás-os-Montes and in 1376 she bought Pinhel.

In early February 1373, during the brief siege that the Castilian troops imposed on the city in the second Fernandine War, Leonor gave birth in Coimbra to her first child with the king, a daughter called Beatriz. Three years later, in 1376, Beatriz was affirmed as heiress to the throne in the Cortes of Leiria. In his testament dated 1378, King Fernando I disinherited his half-siblings, the children of Inês de Castro (João, Dinis and Beatrice, frequently called the Infantes Castro), whom he accused of an attempt to poison him with the help of Diogo Lopes Pacheco.

After several failed betrothals, the marriage of the Portuguese king's daughter to João I of Castile was negotiated by Juan Fernández Anderio. Pursuant to the clauses of the marriage contract, both kingdoms would remain separate, Leonor would be regent and the throne would be inherited by the son born to Beatriz and Juan I, who would be educated in Portugal beginning at age three and would assume the throne at age fourteen.

Leonor began to participate actively in the kingdom's government immediately after her marriage:

"Although there was popular discontent because the queen was the absolute owner of the government and with her the Castilians [...] Portugal entered into a process of prosperity [...] thanks to the promotion of agriculture, trade and the creation of the fleet which, along with the superb walls of Lisbon, were the glories of that reign.”

The people's rejection of the queen was due partly to the governmental posts offered by Leonor to the emperegilados, or "Petrists", the name given to the supporters of King Pedro I of Castile against his half-brother, King Henry II; one of these was the Galician Juan Fernández de Andeiro. In 1369, during the First Fernandine War, Andeiro was one of the "Petrists" who received Fernando I in La Coruña when, after the death of Pedro I, the Portuguese king, as the great-grandson of King Sancho IV of Castile, proclaimed himself heir of the Castilian throne and invaded Galicia. In 1380, Andeiro was at the English court as emissary of Fernando I on a diplomatic mission. He disembarked on his return to Portugal in Oporto, and then went to Estremoz to meet the Portuguese king, but shortly after his arrival he had to hide in a tower for several days, because, according to the provisions of the Treaty of Alcoutim signed in 1371 after the First Fernandine War, all the supporters of Pedro I of Castile were to be expelled from Portugal. It was during his stay in Estremoz, according to the later chronicler Fernão Lopes, that a love affair began between Juan Fernández de Andeiro and Leonor, although the sources used by the chronicler for this assertion are unknown. From 1381 to 1383, Andeiro was one of the closest advisers of Fernando I and Leonor.

While the king and his counselors were in Elvas to discuss a new war with Castile, on 19 July 1382, Leonor gave birth to a son, Afonso, who lived only four days, dying on 23 July under mysterious circumstances; some observers say it was due to the sultry weather in the Alentejo region during that summer, while others, including Fernão Lopes, said that Fernando I, suspecting the infidelity of his wife, had thought the child was the son of Andeiro and in a fit of anger suffocated the infant prince in his cradle. Fernão Lopes also states that the court dressed in mourning only for protocol, since most of the courtiers thought the dead prince was not the king's son.

On 27 September 1383 Leonor gave birth to a daughter who lived only a few days; as in the previous case, it was also rumored that, due to King Fernando's long illness, he was not the infant's father. One month later, on 22 October, the Portuguese monarch died, either of tuberculosis or of gradual poisoning. Leonor did not attend the funeral, according to the chronicler Fernão Lopes, "saying that she felt ill, and could not be there", because of her recent childbirth, or according to other commentators, "fearing the murmur of the people."

Advised by the "emperegilados", Leonor assumed the regency in the name of her daughter, recently married to the Castilian king, following the terms of the marriage contract of Beatriz and King Juan I, under which it was stipulated that at the death of the king of Portugal, the dowager queen would be the regent and governor of the kingdom.

There were two parties, one that supported the pretensions of King Juan I of Castile and the other, represented by the bourgeoisie of Lisbon, whose objective was to expel the foreigners from the government so that the kingdom would be governed only by the Portuguese. This party proposed the marriage of the dowager queen with the master of Aviz, the future King João I of Portugal, but Leonor rejected this proposal. In Lisbon, supporters of the master of Aviz who refused to recognize Beatriz as queen for fear of Portugal's loss of independence, organized a conspiracy to assassinate Juan Fernández de Andeiro. The first two attempts (one of them was organized by Leonor's brother, João Afonso Telo) failed. The third and last attempt took place on 6 December 1383. The master of Aviz gave him a thrust and once on the ground, Rui Pereira killed him. 

This happened in the royal palace next to Leonor's chamber. The master apologized for what had happened and asked her to prevent the Castilian king from entering the kingdom of Portugal. Leonor demanded that Andeiro be buried with dignity and said to him, "And haven't you got any pity for that man lying there dead in such dishonor? Just for the sake of being a nobleman like you, take pity on him and have him buried; don't let him lie there so". He ignored her plea and Leonor was personally responsible for the burial of her friend that night in the Church of Saint Martin.

In January 1384 Leonor asked her son-in-law, King Juan I, to come to Portugal to avenge the death of Andeiro. Chronicler Pero López de Ayala related the event as follows:

When King Juan I was in La Guardia at the beginning of 1384, he received a message from Leonor telling him how the master of Avis had killed the Count of Ourém (Fernandez de Andeiro) and the Bishop of Lisbon in her presence. She had gone to Santarém, understanding that those in Lisbon did not want her or Beatriz there, but she had powerful brothers and relatives in Portugal, as well as possession of the town of Santarém. She asked him to come and so he did [...] She gave him the fortresses of the town and renounced her rule in favor of the king, which according to the terms of his marriage contract, she had to hold until the king of Castile had a son with Beatriz.

Juan I asked Leonor to renounce the regency, although some of the dowager queen's advisers tried to dissuade her and warned her of the danger and illegality, since she could not renounce a government that "had been attributed and sworn in the Cortes" and that only the Cortes could authorize it. However, Leonor remained firm in her purpose and ordered the drafting of the instrument of resignation. After the transfer of powers in January 1384, Juan I of Castile began to use the title of "King of Portugal", combined the royal coat of arms of both Castile and Portugal, and began to confirm royal charters without mentioning his wife, Queen Beatriz, as "Juan, by the grace of God, king of Castile, Leon, Portugal, Toledo and Galicia (D. João, por graça de deus, Rei de Castela, Leão, Portugal, Toledo e Galiza).

Shortly afterwards, Leonor distanced herself from her son-in-law, because, among other reasons, the king did not appoint one of her favorites as the Chief Rabbi of the Jews of Castile. The dowager queen began to ask those who supported her to defend the master of Aviz and not the king of Castile, and also wrote to the cities that the Castilian king had tried to occupy to refuse their obedience to him. When the king marched to Coimbra, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law, the city was already under the protection of Gonçalo Teles, Leonor's brother, as well as her uncle Gonçalo Mendes de Vasconcelos. Leonor participated in a conspiracy to kill her son-in-law and, according to the chronicler Fernão Lopes, was discovered in the presence of her daughter Beatriz, who confronted her mother saying: "Oh Lady mother, in a year you wanted to see me a widow, orphan and disinherited?"

Once Leonor's conspiracies were discovered in March 1384 and she was "blamed as an intriguer", Juan I "took the advice of those who said that the queen should be arrested and sent to Castile and ordered that she must be taken to the monastery in Tordesillas where "widowed queens and daughters of kings had resided previously".

How Queen Leonor was taken to Castile: The king asked for the advice of his councilors, saying that it seemed right to him to imprison the queen his mother-in-law and send her to a monastery in Castile, and not to allow her to remain in Portugal any longer, because of what had happened [...] the advice given by his council was that she should be arrested and taken to Castile, consequently she was delivered to Diego López de Estúñiga. When the king left Coimbra and went to Santarém, he took the queen with him, and from there took her to Castile and placed her in the Royal Convent of Santa Clara in Tordesillas. 

There are no documentary sources to confirm the exact year of her death—probably 1405—or of the place where she was buried. Portuguese historian Joze Barbosa, in his work Catalogo das Rainhas de Portugal, said that she died on 27 April 1386 in Tordesillas and that she was buried in a convent in Valladolid, without specifying which one. However, there is evidence that Leonor was still alive in 1390 when her son-in-law, King Juan I of Castile, in the Cortes that were held that year in Guadalajara, included her in the expenses of his household. In the same year, after the death of the Castilian monarch, Leonor left Tordesillas and settled in Valladolid. In his last will executed in July 1385, King Juan I entrusted his son, the future Henry III of Castile, with the responsibility of always honoring his wife Beatriz and his mother-in-law Leonor Teles. When Henry III executed his will on 4 December 1406, he mentioned Beatriz but not Leonor and, consequently, it can be assumed that she had already died.

Her desire to be buried in the Convent of Saint Francis in Santarém next to her husband, King Fernando, was not fulfilled. Juan Antolínez de Burgos, a 16th – 17th century author who wrote a book on the history of Valladolid, states, without citing any sources, that Leonor was buried in the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced in Valladolid where Leonor lived after abandoning Tordesillas.

During refurbishment work in 1626, a niche was found with two coffins that supposedly contained the remains of Leonor and her son. A plaque was later placed, dated 1384, which identifies the place as the burial of both. The date is wrong because Leonor's date of death is unknown, although it had to be between 1390—when King Juan I of Castile included her in the expenses of his household—and 1406—when his son King Henry III executed his last will mentioning his stepmother Beatriz, but not her mother Leonor.

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Filho de Kelly Cyclone morre aos 18 anos após confronto com policiais

Filho de Kelly Cyclone morre aos 18 anos após confronto com policiais

Oficialmente, a corporação se limitou a dizer que realmente houve confronto, mas não deu mais detalhes sobre a operação O filho de Kelly Cyclone, Cauan Salles Silva, 18 anos, morreu na manhã desta quinta-feira (8/12) após confronto com policiais, em Vila de Abrantes, em Camaçari, na Região Metropolitana de Salvador. Familiares apontaram ao Grupo Aratu que ele estaria dentro de casa quando foi…

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Clear Sky, 13°C

A25, Portugal

Tuesday 9th April 2019

When I woke up this morning after having had a reasonable nights sleep, something was amiss. As normal I checked my watch and found it to be 0800hrs , but shortly afterwards when perusing the news on my phone, the time read 0705hrs , I was a little puzzled but it didnt take too long for the penny to drop. Portugal is in the same time zone as the UK and so yesterday when crossing from Spain we had gained an extra hour. Hurrah ! First job of the day was housekeeping, i.e. water , waste and rubbish. From research I knew there to be a state of the art commercial services just on the outskirts of the town . The facility was fully automated and even had a jet wash facility with a high rise platform so one could clean the roof of your van. I didn't feel this necessary as mother nature had been periodically jet washing the van over several days and the roof was in pretty good order. The services were time limited to four minutes for 2 Euros which included balck waste and fresh water refill. Team work was deployed with Rhian on fresh water detail and me on black waste. We were successful in completing both tasks within the time limit . Tea and medals all round. Next on the list was to travel to our next destination namely Aveiro which was about an hour away on non toll roads(more of which later) and which had been described as the Venice of Portugal. As we were arriving in the town we stumbled across a Lidl . Provisions were generally in short supply so we made a pit stop and after a light snack made our way to a car park within easy walking distance of the town centre. Aveiro was a pleasant town with a small canal system running through its centre, I think the Portuguese tourist department had been a little ambitious or even mischievous in describing it as a Portuguese Venice but there was a nice ambience , boat rides up and down the canals on powered traditional wooden craft once used for harvesting seaweed for fertilising the land. Now a little about the toll road system here in Portugal which quite frankly is an absolute nightmare and ridiculously over complex. My so far limited experience of the normal A roads is that they are of very poor quality , over congested with heavy traffic and HGVs and that the infrastructure appears to have been very much neglected to encourage use of the toll motorways. Fair enough. France and Spain have a very easy and effective system whereby you approach a manned or unmanned Peage(toll area) pull up to the machine , take a ticket and when you leave the road, insert said ticket into machine, insert debit card in machine, no PIN required , 10 seconds, job done. Portugal has a much better hi tech modern way which uses ANPR(automated number plate recognition) cameras on gantries across the motorway which scan every vehicle number plate passing beneath. As a road user in a foreign registered vehicle you have the following options

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How do I pay the tolls?

Foreign licensed vehicles

Toll Card

These are pre-paid cards that can be loaded with €5, €10, €20 or €40 credit, and have an additional service cost of 0.74€. They can be purchased online here, but also from other places including CTT post-offices, Easy Toll Welcome Points, tourist offices and the following service areas:

All within A23 highway

All within A22 highway

Celorico, Vouzela and Aveiro on the A25 highway

Viana do Castelo and Vila do Conde on the A28 highway

Almodôvar on A2 highway

Estremoz on A6 highway

Barcelos on A3 highway

Seide on A7 highway

Once purchased, cards need to be activated it by sending a text message including a code on the card and the license plate of the vehicle so that it can be associated. The cards last for one year or until the balance is exhausted, which you can check online.

Do you have remaining credit on your card? It can also be refunded within 6 months, but only if a credit card was used for the payment.

Toll Service

This is also a pre-paid product, with 2 available options:

Unlimited use for 3 days, with a cost of €20 (plus 0.74€)

A single or round trip on two pre-defined routes:

Spain – Porto Airport, via A28 or A41

Spain – Faro Airport via A22

It can be purchased online here, at CTT post-offices, Porto’s airport, or at the following Cepsa service areas:

Viana dos Castelo (A28)

Abrantes (A23)

Olhão (A22)

Easy Toll

This is the easiest option for foreign visitors, especially those driving from Spain. It can be purchased at an Easy Toll Welcome Point without having to leave the vehicle, and it associates a credit card (Mastercard, Visa or Maestro) to the vehicle’s license plate. There is sign up cost of 0.74 € and each journey has an administrative cost of 0.32 €.

ATTENTION HERE:

!!) Because the credit card is linked to the vehicle, the membership needs to be cancelled, otherwise, the same credit card can be charged in the case of a new customer renting the same vehicle.

!!) You are not allowed to use Via Verde lanes with options 1 (Toll Card), 2 (Toll Service) nor 3 (Easy Toll), unless you have a special device called transponder (see option 4).

These are the only 4 Easy Toll Welcome Point available:

A28 – Viana do Castelo Service Area

A24 – at 3,5km from Chaves/Veribn border

A25 – Alto de Leomil Service Area

A22 – next to Castro Marim/Ayamonte border

  Easy Toll Welcome Point (source: http://www.carhirefaroairport.com/a22-toll-payment.htm)

Via Verde Visitors

Aimed at longer stays or frequent visitors, you can rent a temporary transponder device for €6 for the first week then €1.50 per week plus a refundable deposit of €27.50. You have to register a credit card with the system and tolls are automatically debited from the card. It is valid for a maximum of 90 days and can be used on electronic toll roads

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You see my point ?

You may say , why use the toll roads but as previously stated many of the roads are in very poor order and the extra distance, fuel etc, make it very difficult and time consuming to avoid them. Suffice to say I visited a Post Office to purchase a prepaid ticket and expect a lengthy legal battle with the Portuguese authorities on our return to the UK ! I read an article stating that the Portuguese tourism industry are lobbying the government to make changes to the system as it is significantly affecting visitor numbers and I for one would certainly have to think very seriously about returning after this experience. Anyway using our newly purchased toll ticket we made our way about an hour south to a nice little beach aire at Praia Lavos. More of the same coastline really, big dunes , big seas. So far no plan for tomorrow

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GNR deteta captações ilegais na albufeira de Castelo de Bode em Figueiró dos Vinhos em Leiria

A GNR anunciou na sexta-feira ter detetado captações de água e plataformas flutuantes ilegais na albufeira de Castelo de Bode, no concelho de Figueiró dos Vinhos.

Em comunicado, o Comando Territorial de Leiria da GNR explicou que o Serviço de Proteção da Natureza e do Ambiente "detetou captações de água e plataformas ilegais durante uma ação de fiscalização em plena área de intervenção do Plano de Ordenamento da Albufeira de Castelo de Bode, nas localidades de Casalinho Santana e Vale Bom", naquele concelho do norte do distrito de Leiria.

Segundo a GNR, foram detetadas "quatro captações de água sem o necessário licenciamento da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA)" e que serviam, "essencialmente, para uso doméstico".

"No mesmo local foram ainda detetadas duas plataformas flutuantes para acostagem e acesso a embarcações, verificando-se não existir qualquer licenciamento por parte da APA", adiantou.

Das diligências desenvolvidas, que decorreram entre o dia 23 e quinta-feira, a GNR identificou os presumíveis autores, três homens e uma mulher, com idades entre os 50 e 60 anos, e foram "elaborados os respetivos autos de contraordenação ambientais, remetidos à Administração da Região Hidrográfica do Centro". As coimas variam entre os 10 mil euros e os 100 mil euros.

Fonte da GNR disse à Lusa que as captações eram efetuadas "por intermédio de bombas semelhantes às que são utilizadas para extração de água de poços e furos domésticos, e a tubagem direcionada para uso doméstico e agrícola".

"Apesar de o licenciamento nem ser difícil nem oneroso, verificamos que as pessoas, por desconhecimento ou conforto, não o fazem", acrescentou a mesma fonte.

Na resolução do Conselho de Ministros que aprova a revisão do Plano de Ordenamento da Albufeira de Castelo do Bode, de 2003, lê-se que esta "nasceu em 1951 com a construção da barragem com o mesmo nome, localizada no troço terminal do rio Zêzere, a montante da confluência deste com o rio Nabão".

Segundo a resolução, a albufeira era, à data, "o maior reservatório nacional de água" e onde se localizava "a maior captação de água para consumo humano, servindo mais de dois milhões de habitantes da área da Grande Lisboa e dos municípios limítrofes".

Este plano "incide sobre o plano de água e respetiva zona de proteção (...), integrando os concelhos de Abrantes, Figueiró dos Vinhos, Ferreira do Zêzere, Sardoal, Sertã, Tomar e Vila de Rei", distribuídos pelos distritos de Leiria, Santarém e Castelo Branco.

Esta é uma albufeira de águas públicas protegida.

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aquele momento que você está chapadona na sua casa e decide tirar umas fotos🔥 #PRIDEPACK (em Vilas de Abrantes) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byi5oOeHzo6/?igshid=7yw2rg60dyro

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A vacinação contra a Covid-19 continua em Camaçari nesta segunda-feira (30/5). A novidade fica por conta da terceira dose (primeira dose de reforço) para adolescentes de 12 a 17 anos após terem tomado a segunda dose há quatro meses. A terceira dose em adolescentes será feita com CoronaVac e Pfizer. A campanha segue também para crianças de 5 a 11 anos com e sem comorbidades, assim como para adultos e adolescentes a partir dos 12 anos. A oferta dos imunizantes se mantém para as primeiras e segundas doses, além do reforço. Também se mantém a vacinação da quarta dose para os idosos de 60 anos acima, que deve ser aplicada quatro meses após terceira. Para serem vacinadas, as crianças devem estar acompanhadas do pai ou mãe, apresentar Cartão de Vacina, Cartão SUS, documento de identificação e CPF. Caso o menor vá acompanhado por outro responsável, este deverá levar uma declaração assinada pelos pais, autorizando a vacinação. Para as crianças com comorbidade, ainda é necessário apresentar documentos, originais e cópias, que comprovem a doença (relatório médico, receita ou cadastro em instituições de tratamento de saúde). Confira os locais de vacinação desta segunda-feira: Adultos e adolescentes 12 anos acima Sede - 9h às 16h Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) Gleba E Unidade de Saúde da Família (USF) Phoc Caic USF Jardim Limoeiro II USF Parque Florestal USF Piaçaveira USF Burissatuba UBS Gravatá Costa - 9h às 15h UBS Vila de Abrantes USF Cajazeiras de Abrantes USF Fonte da Caixa UBS Arembepe UBS Monte Gordo Crianças 5 a 11 anos com e sem comorbidades Sede - 9h às 16h USF Lama Preta USF Verdes Horizontes I USF Dois de Julho USF Gleba B USF Parafuso Costa 9h às 15h USF Cajazeiras de Abrantes USF Fonte da Caixa UBS Arembepe UBS Monte Gordo Foto: Tiago Pacheco

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Riverfront, Lisbon (No. 2)

The first notable city on the Tagus is Sacedón. Below Aranjuez it receives the combined flow of the Jarama, Henares, Algodor and Tajuña. Below Toledo it receives the Guadarrama River. Above Talavera de la Reina it receives the Alberche. At Valdeverdeja is the upper end of the long upper reservoir, the Embalse de Valdecañas, beyond which are the Embalse de Torrejon, into which flow the Tiétar, and the lower reservoir, the Alcántara Dam into which flows the Alagón at the lower end.

A canal and aqueduct are between the Tagus and the Segura for the Tagus-Segura Water Transfer.

After forming the border it enters Portugal, passing Vila Velha de Ródão, Abrantes, Constância, Entroncamento, Santarém and Vila Franca de Xira at the head of the long narrow estuary, which has Lisbon at its mouth. The estuary is protected by the Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve. Two bridges span the river at Lisbon: the Vasco da Gama Bridge – the second longest bridge in Europe, with a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi) – and the 25 de Abril Bridge. The Port of Lisbon, straddling its mouth, is one of Europe's busiest.

The Portuguese Alentejo region and the former Ribatejo Province take their names from the river: Alentejo, from além Tejo ("beyond the Tejo") and Ribatejo probably from arriba Tejo (an archaic phrase for "upper Tejo"). However, the Spanish word riba means "riverside", or "riviera", implying that Ribatejo can also mean very generically "the side of Tejo". Many instances of towns in Spain have this prefix.

Source: Wikipedia