If ever the cliché "a good deed in a naughty world" was justified it is, surely, in relation to Festival de Almada.
The annual, fortnight-long theatre festival plays in both its home city of Almada (on the south bank of the River Tagus) and in Lisbon (over on the north bank). It continues to be a cultural beacon on a Portuguese artistic landscape ravaged by austerity.
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