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Christian Louboutin made a tour of the Alentejo

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The famous French footwear designer, with the iconic red sole, has a house in Portugal and shared a list of places where he usually goes.

Originally from Brittany and raised in Paris, Christian Louboutin discovered the region [of Alentejo] 15 years ago while vacationing with his Portuguese friends at Comporta. With the flood of people, new constructions that he does not like and mosquitoes, decided to buy a house more to the south, in the Lagoon of Santo André, near Melides, where he plants great pots of geraniums, citronela and peppermint to move away the insects.

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The Stranglers come to town

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The Stranglers, the punk band that marked the 1970s and 1980s, will perform in the opening concert of Rural Beja, on Thursday, at 22.30, the only concert planned for Portugal within the bands’s  ‘Black & White’ tour. The Stranglers have enjoyed great commercial successes with songs like ‘Golden Brown’ and ‘Always The Sun’.

The event will run until Sunday in Beja Exhibition Fair Park and include Vinipax, the Festa Brava, the Hall of the Horse, the spaces “Nature the Bureau” and “Do rainfed to irrigated land,” bird shows (Avibeja) and dogs (Canibeja) and an Iberian symposium dedicated to the cork tree, the olive tree and the holm oak.