Aldeia Condominium – Vales and Vale da Telha – Meeting Disclosure

On June 24th, at 5:00 pm, a briefing event will take place at the AMOVATE headquarters, in the Old School house in Vales, about the project of the conduminium of the Aldeia de Vales and Vale da Telha.

This project was developed by the municipality of Aljezur with support from the Environmental Fund and PRR. For more info visit their website.

The ultimate goal of this project is to promote the transformation of the landscape in the area surrounding the villages of Vales and Vale da Telha in order to create a landscape and an ecosystem that is more resilient to fires, which guarantees greater protection of the villages against the occurrence of catastrophic fires.

To achieve this goal, the project foresees two types of complementary actions:

Forest intervention and management – ​​with deforestation actions, fuel management, acacia control and grassland improvement.

This work was done in two phases:
– May to September 2023 – with deforestation actions, fuel management, acacia control
– October, November – pasture sowing

Disclosure, communication – aimed at local actors (resident population, owners and other local actors) – consists of explaining the proposed intervention logic, active management of the fuel load and the role that each person plays in this process.
The active participation of local actors in this meeting will be important to establish a future work process that gives continuity to this project and is capable of incorporating local ideas, suggestions and experiences.

For more information contact the Aljezur Forestry Technical Office

Commander António Ângelo

December 7, 2023

Lazer Telecom has been busy installing a microwave-based high-speed internet service in VdT throughout the year. Now, after having received such a strong response to that “AirFibre” offering, starting in mid-or-late January 2024 they will begin Phase 1 of installing actual fibre-optic cable internet service to individual homes across Vale da Telha. This fibre-optic service will provide fast connection speeds (minimum 250 mbs) with plans beginning at around €40/mo with long term contracts. A €500 installation fee may be charged for “no contract” accounts. Also, about €10/mo can be saved by providing your own router as opposed to renting the one from Lazer.

Fábio Domingues, one of two Lazer sales representatives who has been part of the VdT AirFibre rollout, explained that they already had to bring high capacity fibre into the neighborhood in order to provide bandwidth for their microwave antenna atop the water tower. Once they saw such a strong response to their AirFibre (microwave) offering, and with that big data pipeline already here, they decided to “up their game” — they began making plans to switch over to a cable-based delivery system instead of the microwave dishes.

It took some time to get approval from the Câmara. One stumbling block was that Lazer could not use the cement utility poles owned by EDP. In the end, Lazer agreed to use the existing network of wooden poles used by other telecom companies.

The first phase of the fibre rollout will target homes that are already subscribed to the AirFibre service (also adjacent homes who wish to sign up.) There are also a number of homes who had wanted AirFibre but did not have the required direct-line-of-sight to the water tower. Those will also get first priority.

“Our intention is to be ready to go ahead with the changeovers / new clients (next to changeovers) and people that cannot be connected to our AirFibre system in the middle / end of January,” said Domingues. “After this step we will go ahead with brand new connections in VdT. Arrifana and Espartal will be connected after that phase.”

Inquires can be made via their coverage map/order form where you can also view pricing levels.

To celebrate the annual municipal holiday of Aljezur there will be five days of festivities. From August 25 until August 29, the town will be full of animation and well known Portuguese musicians will be performing.

On the first day, there will be a formal opening session in the town hall which will include the handing out of the Municipal Medal of Merit and Dedication “Gold Grade” to António Novais Henriques, for his constant dedication to the challenges thrown up by the associations of Aljezur. Other municipal medals of cultural and sporting honours will be awarded to various associations in the municipality at the same time.

The festivities start on Friday the 25th with the opening of the Street Food festival which will be located next to the municipal market. There will be lots of petiscos or small bites, food stands and musical entertainment. On the 26th, the night will be livened up by Deejay Telio and the following night (27 Aug) Richie Campbell will take to the stage.

The popular “Night A – Multicultural Night” will take place on the 28th of August and will have the usual white dress code. The event will take place in the historic or old part of town and there will be several stages with different shows and performances. Throughout the day, visitors will also have the opportunity to visit the museums of the village and in the late afternoon Rita Guerra will give an intimate concert on the stage near the Castle. This memorable night will finish with a performance on the main stage with D.A.M.A with special guest Buba Espinho.

The party continues on the morning of the municipal holiday with the traditional walk to the beach of Monte Clérigo with the reenactment of the “Banho de 29”, where everyone is invited to take the acclaimed “holy bath”. Tradition and folklore say that the “bath” on August 29 scares away demons and is worth twenty-nine baths.

At the end of the morning, the free distribution of sardines will start in all the different freguesias of the municipality for the “Mega Sardinhada em sua Casa” (sardine party at home) so people can celebrate this day amongst friends.

João Pedro will be closing these five days of festivities on the main stage with a concert of timeless music!