LISBON’S PAVILHÃO Atlantîco is the venue in March for Disney Princesses on Ice, an ice skating spectacular featuring seven Disney princesses: Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Ariel, Jasmine and Mulan.

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A MUSEUM dedicated to design and fashion is to open in Lisbon in 2008.

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GET YOUR SKATES ON!

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Lisbon lights up
Laid-back Lisbon is a secret no longer. Alison Roberts sets off in search of fish, feiras and fado

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Associaco de Turismo de Lisboa

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Jazz in August at Gulbenkian
Hora: 03-08-2006

Jazz returns In August to the Gulbenkian Foundation gardens for a week of concerts entitled “Under the influences of Coltrane”.

The calendar features predominantly the North American influences from New Orleans on this style of music. This event has been organised by the Gulbenkian Foundation since 1984, hosting around 180 quality and diverse concerts, featured in the best contemporary jazz publications. The “Jazz in August 2006” calendar features The Anthony Braxton Sextet, The Claudia Quintet, Rova Orkestrova Electric Ascension, Craig Taborn's Junk Music, Corkestra, Nels Cline and Evan Parker, among others. The guest musicians cover nearly all the modern jazz styles, from “neofree” and “electrojazz" to "chamber jazz" and the so called "noise", to the delight of jazz connoisseurs and the surprise of more amateur jazz fans.
The program also includes a lecture by Evan Parker on Coltrane, one of the mythical figures of modern jazz who died in 1967 aged only 41. It will also feature a film with Coltrane, Miles Davis e Gil Evan, lent by the United States Congress Library.
August 3 to 12, Gulbenkian Foundation gardens, Avenida de Berna (metro station: Praca de Espanha).

August 3, 9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Rova: Orkestrova Electric Ascension

August 4
3.30pm, auditorium 2: Evan Parker
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey

August 5
3.30pm, multifunction hall: John Coltrane Conference
4.30pm / 5.30pm, multifunction hall: “The Robert Herridge Theater – The Sound of Miles Davis” film
6.30pm, auditorium 2: Larry Ochs/Fred Frith/ Le Quan
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Mandarin Movie

August 6
6.30pm, auditorium 2: Le Quan Ninh
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Corkestra

August 10
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Craig Taborn’s Junk Magic

August 11
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: The Claudia Quintet

August 12
3.30pm, multifunction hall: “Discovering Jazz Treasure” –commentary by Larry Appelbaum
4.30pm/5.30pm, multifunction hall: “The Robert Herridge Theater – The Sound of Miles Davis” film
6.30pm, auditorium 2: Lisbon Improvisation Players featuring Dennis Gonzalez
9.30pm, open air amphitheatre: Anthony Braxton 6tet

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Medieval Fair at Obidos - click below for more pictures

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Museum, Lisbon.

The Museum is organised round two gardens with numerous tall picture windows that enable the visitor to enjoy Nature and Art.

Oriental and Classical Art on display in the Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian, Eastern Islamic, Armenian and Far Eastern Art.

European Art with sections dedicated to the Art of the Book, Sculpture, Painting and the Decorative Arts particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique.

A link to visitor information is here:- Gulbenkian Museum

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Voted one of the top three places to invest by Channel 4 in the UK.

Stretching from Lisbon to Fiqueira da Foz, Portugal’s Costa de Prata (Silver Coast) is a gem of largely undiscovered beauty and gets its name from the effect of the sun on the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike its more famous and populous cousin in the south of the country here you can discover pretty villages and a real Portuguese way-of-life amongst stunning coastal scenery fringed with the best beaches in Europe. Because much of this area of Portugal remains undiscovered by the mass tourism market you can guarantee a beach to yourself even in the height of the season if you are prepared to drive and walk a little way.

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Take a tour around the wine production region of the "Oeste" here.

"One of the most important wine-growing areas in Portugal and in the World."

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From the 13th to the 23rd of July 2006.

The Medieval Fair of Óbidos will be throughout the streets, courtyards and alleys of the historic town. The rows of market stalls, with items made in the spirit of the Middle Ages, will create the real feeling of a fair. Along with the public, over a hundred actors, numerous musicians, dancers, beggars, victims of the plague and other performers will liven up the market spirit. Outdoor reenactments performed amidst the public bring to the stage noblemen and peasants, clergymen, merchants, artisans and jesters. The displays by master craftsmen and apprentices, will provide an insight into medieval handicrafts. Also local traditional food will be served in a true medieval atmosphere.

The Medieval Fair of Óbidos this year has the theme of a royal visit and will include horse tournaments, processions, concerts, plays, medieval banquets, court scenes, falconry exhibitions, etc.

Entertainment Schedule:
Weekends – begins at 15h00
Weekdays – begins at 18h00

Entrance Fee – €3,00
Free for visitors wearing Medieval Costumes
Free entrance for children under 12

Opening hours....

13th - 6pm until midnight.
15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd midday until midnight.
14th,17th,18th,19th, 20th, and 21st 5pm until midnight.

Click on the link for more details of the Medieval Fair and Market - Obidos.

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Here is a site that delivers rental bikes anywhere in Portugal
and Spain. They have a Lisbon office. Deliver to your hotel etc.
at an extra charge.

Hourly, daily and the weekly rates. The rates don't look cheap
to me, see...

http://www.bikeiberia.com/rentals_rates.html

Around 75 Euros a week for a kids bike, 100 for a standard bike,
more for mountain bikes.

Pre-registering is required at

http://www.bikeiberia.com/rentals_anywhere.html

How much do bikes cost in the supermarkets now? Saw some for
sale in Le Clerc's just the other day.

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Escola de Vela da lagoa sailing school, kite surf, wind surf, home of the 24 hours optimist and catamaran race, windy lagoon easy to learn sailing courses.

Between July and August, courses run from Monday to Friday, each morning from 10 to 13h . Individual inscriptions taken.

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