Tagus

The aim is to transform the region around the Tagus River, which is open to the Atlantic Ocean, into a leading European metropolis by boosting industrial and business parks and other economic activities.

It's only a short 15-minute ferry ride from Cais do Sodre to Cacilhas, on the quieter south bank of the Tagus, where hilltop statue Cristo Rei (a copy of Brazil's Christ the Redeemer) extends his embrace.

The historical and archaeological significance of Quinta dos Patudos causes that the name Alpiarca is internationally associated with one of the richest periods in the history of the Tagus Valley-The Bronze Age.

Previous trace metal studies in the same area are scarce and mostly deal with more limited geographic areas, such as the continental shelf adjacent to the Tagus and the Sado rivers (Paiva et al., 1997; Jouanneau et al., 1998) and the Tagus mud patch (Mil-Homens et al., 2009).

27 February 2013 - Tagus Holdings Sarl, the owner of over 90% in Brisa Auto Estradas de Portugal SA (ELI:BRI), will pay a fair price to minority shareholders before delisting the Portuguese motorway operator from the Lisbon bourse, a Brisa shareholder told Bloomberg.

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The Spanish city of Toledo is protected by its location along a gorge in the Tagus River and a great wall the people built a long time ago.

The Myriad Hotel is located on the banks of the River Tagus, just 10 minutes from the airport.

To capture the spring fervour, try Tagus Creek Chardonnay & Fernao Pires 2011, Portugal (pounds 6.49, Waitrose), which pens its name from the Tagus River, southern Portugal.

On the lawns of the banks of the Tagus, by the fairy-tale rococo-gothic Tower of Belem, the fortress from which extraordinarily brave Portuguese sailors set out to explore the world at the turn of the 16th century, stands a new castle: the Fundacao Champalimaud Research Centre.

A plan to reduce irrigation in the surrounding area has failed and now the government is proposing to transport water into the wetlands from the Tagus River Basin.

Redcar Ore: SKS Tagus. Svitzer Tees: Svitzer Maltby, Lady Brenda.