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As a Portuguese, I consider this video an exaggeration. I lived in Tras-os-montes for a few years and I still travel there and the truth is that I did not see that there were empty towns, nor that any language other than Portuguese was spoken, even though they had a close commercial relationship with the Spanish inhabitants. On the other hand, Yes, in Spain, there are populations and regions completely uninhabited since the 1960s, but in Portugal this case has never occurred.

Greetings from Estoril...Been a legal resident of Portugal since 2016...Originally from Texas...Traveled and lived all over this beautiful country from Bragança to Tavira and Marvão to Ponta Delgada and everywhere in-between...I.M.H.O the interior is the best part of the country and it is not totally isolated...From smaller villages to larger towns that networked through regions...I lived for a year in Ponte de Lima...one of the oldest villages in Portugal...Absolutely gorgeous, reminded me of many small towns back in Texas...Yet close enough to Braga and Viana do Castelo with larger populations...There is a vibrant interior community with agriculture as well factories of various sorts in the interior of the country...To me the most authentic people in the country are in the interior with my favorite being Alentejo and Viana do Castelo regions...and while the bigger cities such as Braga, Coimbra, Porto, Lisboa in deed have better wages...the quality of life in the interior is superb and I go there often...Off to the Acores in early June...Will do Faial, Pico and São Miguel...but don´t do a video on the Acores Population...It does not need any more Cowboys...😉🤫🤠

I don't see it as a bad thing. There is some land left for the animals and insects to live.

Spent a few weeks in Portugal in 2019…. The land is gorgeous, the people were very welcoming, and seemed very hardworking…. From Porto to the Algarve, it is a country with which one could fall in love. I cannot wait to visit again…

Nice video! Just a small correction: although there is some regional proud (mainly between the North and Lisbon), Portugal and Portuguese people are not shaped by regional differences, even in the European context. Spain, Italy, Belgium, even Germany, these I would consider countries where regions play an important role in dividing society, what does not happen in here. In Portugal, although that speech exists, it is more in terms of jokes and it has no strong consequences socially speaking (ofc each region has its very own traditions and culture, but even though we like to point that out, when comparing with other countries it is very obvious that we have a very homogenous culture). Also, different regions don't speak different dialects, they just have different accents. The only dialect (or language) that exists in Portugal is "Mirandês", but it is spoken by very few people in the interior of the country, and then some "creolo" that came with the imigration of people from the ex-colonies (particularly around Lisbon).

Red zone isn't empty but have less inhabitants,it is a countryside rural landscape with less demographic density,between 10 and 25 residents per sq Km(km2).

Several things wrong here: 1. One of the reasons Portugal has concentrated population in the Coast and Lisbon is that historically, people could have higher wages, and salt extraction was particularly noticeable at make moving people away from interior. 2. It is not Duoro, but Douro 3. Alentejo is pronounced with the J like jet, not like an R 4. Serra de São Mamede is not on the Nort East, even the drawing contradicts what you say 5. In 1960's the government did not encourage immigration. What really happened, is people were fleeing away from the country, and did everything for the portuguese government to not know about it. This was a very common scenario. People wanted to escape the hungriness. My own father was an example of this. He and his siblings commonly ate at lunch sardine divided by 3 when they were kids. When we was trying to flee to France, when he was already in Spain nearing France. Spanish guards took him to the Portuguese border, and he had to repeat the trip again. And then he was immigrated in Paris 17 years. My uncle went to France disguised in a truck full of haze, in the middle of haze stacks, for discretion.

Another cultural factor is that the Portuguese are VERY attached to the sea. It's very hard for people that live near the coastlin to got to the interior because we feel almost claustrophobic and dispriented without the great atlantic ocean by our side

I learned more about Portugal by reading the comments, lol.

I was about to subscribe, but some mistakes stopped me to do it. But, what you say from 4:55 onwards, really left me amazed. You said almost the opposite of what really happened. The government at that time favoured all the territory of Portugal in Europe, building a lot of infrastructure, universities, dams, roads, thousands of schools, bringing electricity to the interior, hospitals, etc. In the last years, due to the overseas was in Africa, only then they started doing it more in Africa than in European Portugal. Most of the people who left Portugal did it due to the war, not due to economics. During the late 50s, all 60s and the first half of the 70s, Portuguese economy was growing more than the European average. People ran from the war and censorship. The worst this you said, at 5:34, is that the government promoted emigration... this is actually the opposite of what happened. The government under Salazar never, never promoted emigration from Portugal to other countries, never. This is a lie. They wanted people in. That's why, in order to escape, many had to do it during the night and travel on foot to the border and cross it to Spain. Such mistakes really made me doubt everything else you say that I didn't know beforehand. Seriously, a simple 5-min read in Wikipedia is enough to understand that the government wanted people in, not out. I hope next time you do a better research.

Foreigners taking an interest in learning about my country never ceases to amaze me. Thank you (,Obrigado 😊)

I live in Canada and know/have met many people from Portugal. They are are great people and very hard working. Two very important traits in anyone.

As Portuguese, I would just like to clarify that we don't have regions with dif dialects. We have different accents actually! In Spain, they have dif dialects, a sibling of Spanish let's say. For us, we all speak Portuguese but depending on where you are, the way we say the same word sounds different. And yes, regarding each region, we're very proud of our accents, futebol teams, food etc eheh but if you go to the biggest cities you'll find people from all corners of the country. Nice video though! ❤ P.s: I'm talking about ACCENTS, not languages so don't twist my words. There are no dialects in Portugal like there are in Spain. For those who clearly did not get my comment. And yes Spain has plenty of other languages. Guess what, so do we! It's still something diff than a freaking accent. That's what's less accurate in the video.

Love Portugal and its people!

A fair job on Portugal. The coastal areas vs interior regions was a bit redundant, but then that was the subject at hand. The pronounciation of Portuguese was also good, with the exception of words with NH which I didn't expect you to get, and the J, which I did expect you to get. After all, Portugueses is not Spanish.

Documentário sobre Portugal mais errado e confuso que vi até hoje!!!!

Portugal é muito lindo. Otimo lugar para viver ❤❤❤❤❤

I live in portugal, and have to say this video is not portraying the truth accurately. Even 80% of the footage shown is not even Portugal.

Thanks for paying attention to our language and correctly saying the name of the city of Porto. Many non-portuguese speakers think the city is called "Oporto" but "o" translates as "the". What happens is we usually refer to this city with the definite masculine pronoun "o", the same way we do with other cities like Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Cairo. Cities usually don't take pronouns but these are notable exceptions.

These kinds of videos are somewhat simplistic. The interior of Portugal does not have harsh weather and does not present insurmountable topographical challenges. See Canada for harsh weather and Switzerland for crazy terrain. It's just that the population hasn't grown enough for people to move to those lands and there is very little immigration into the country. This video is somewhat analogous to someone saying in 1750 why the 13 colonies on the east coast of the United States are so sparsely populated. It is simply because of a lack of people since now the eastern seaboard of the US is one of the most densely populated and productive in the world. And immigrants are responsible for that. People create cities and make opportunities even in the harshest places. Geography is at best a small impediment.

Portugal is sparsely populated in the interior of the country, because the political power did not invest in the interior of the continent and abandoned it with the expenses, closing all public services, for example, closing the forest services, causing the abandonment of the forest, causing a increase in forest fires. During the last decades, in the last political regimes, they led to the total abandonment of investment in the interior, closing the train lines, public road services, bridges and paths... even the rivers, mountains are abandoned. During the last 30 years, schools in the villages were also closed, promoting the abandonment of populations. Forest fires also contributed to the abandonment of different locations. agriculture was also unprotected and neglected by current policies, encouraging migration to the coast.

Thank you for the video about Portugal ❤

We live in the Serra da Estrela & it is glorious - have posted a few vids! Yes, it can get cold in the winter, but a huge advantage of being up here is cool nights even in summer...the population is currently at around 1/10th of what it was in the 60's

At 1:01 you are mentioning that the country's interior is dominated by mountains terrain, while you are showing a video of a Vulcanic island in the middle of the atlantic, Madeira.

Liked it.very informative.

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Great info! Thank you! Obrigada! 🙂

Amazing video, very educational, thanks. I'll search your videos to see if you have something to say about my country Costa Rica 😀

You deserve more views.

As somebody else mentioned, this video contains exaggerations regarding "uninhabited" regions. They're not uninhabited at all. I live in a very rural area of one of them: Alentejo. The population density is low, to be sure, and falling as the rural population ages and dies. If you live here that's certainly a worry because population density in these regions is already at about half the level of what it was in the 1950s and early 1960s. Nobody wants to see streets full of abandoned houses or rarely visited second homes that remain empty and lifeless for much of the year. One wants them to retain the vibrancy and strong sense of community that is their true richness. Nevertheless, quality of life in the interior is very high - provided you have a reasonable source of income. I wouldn't choose to live anywhere else. Climate is great. Food is great. People are great. Culture is great. Bureaucracy is... fortunately.... improving - although patience is still a virtue! 🙂 I would really like to see the initiatives aimed at stimulating employment and self-employment in regions such as this successfully encourage young Portuguese people (perhaps with children) to have the confidence to return to their family roots in the interior. In an age when the digital economy is reshaping employment, there would seem to be ample opportunities for those of working age to improve their quality of life. At the same time this will require the construction of new homes. Terraced cottages in a rural town or village look great but are often very uncomfortable, cold and damp in the winter time. The low quality of housing is a problem right across Portugal. As many Portuguese people here have already mentioned, Portugal doesn't have distinct dialects of Portuguese. But they do have a (relatively) limited range of accents and relatively minor regional variations in vocabulary. This is hardly unique to Portugal, though. There is significant regional variation in terms of identity, food and traditions. But at the same time these regional variations are appreciated more widely across the country in much the same way that they are in other countries. Regional pride in local traditions and culture is (fortunately) very much alive and very much appreciated and respected. The Azores (Açores) is like a microcosm of the mainland: each island is very different, as are its people and their unique culture/traditions. Yet they're part of a greater Açorean whole with a very strong and distinct Portuguese national identity layered on top of that. With each passing year I feel that Portuguese people - especially young people - are (with good reason) becoming more and more proud of being Portuguese. And so they should be. It genuinely is a wonderful country and it's lovely to see the rising professional and personal confidence amongst the (now very educated and modern European) young Portuguese people. The country is stuff burdened by the legacy of the Salazar dictatorship (aspects of which this video describes) but the younger generation have truly broken free of the more submissive mindset (from the period of dictatorship) that their grandparents would always struggle to overcome and that their parents never completely left behind. Young people in Portugal are now every bit as forward looking, competent and confident as anywhere else in Europe. I would very much love if many of these very capable young people were able to find happiness and success in the regions such as mine. Hopefully that will come to pass. As a foreigner ("almost Portuguese"!) working in the digital economy from rural Portugal, I would certainly like to see an injection of energy, enthusiasm and creativity from young people coming back to this area from the (much more expensive) coastal cities such as Lisbon (where I used to live). Both of my nephews have gone to work in the UK (prior to Brexit) but my great hope in the next decade is that this trend will be reversed. In many ways business in Portugal has to catch up with Eastern Europe but there is so much opportunity to do so and virtually all of the necessary conditions already exist. Except for good wages. Wages are poor across Portugal. In the digital economy, at least, I expect wages to rise significantly in this country. I very much hope that this (and the associated productivity improvements that underpin this trend) will bring improved salaries across the board and making living in the interior regions of Portugal (with their low housing costs) much more attractive to the younger generation. A country with such a *potential* for abundant clean and cheap energy, a clean environment, low cost housing, plenty of land per capita and a great quality of life shouldn't be losing talented and hard-working young people (including doctors and nurses!) abroad. Perhaps with Lisbon (and similar cities) becoming so expensive for property, young people will look look to a possible future in the interior in a new light. The government should absolutely be trying to accommodate them. The would be a reverse of the migration to the coastal cities from the interior that took place in the 60s and 70s. Portugal is like a very rich box of chocolates that one opens and enjoys again and again. There's just so much to discover and appreciate. Some of the best of what's to discover is far away from the beaches of Algarve and the bright lights of the coastal cities. If only tourists knew. But to many of us it's almost a blessing that they don't - because so many parts of Portugal are not ruined by mass commercial tourism and are so much the better for it. The real wealth of Portugal is encapsulated in the nature of its people. In the interior, perhaps, there's simply much more opportunity (settings and time) to experience Portuguese people at their best rather than on a busy street in Lisbon during rush hour or in a shopping centre or supermarket. You get the time and space to meet and watch people go about their daily business and appreciate the way that they do this in a more intimate setting with a slower pace of life. There's an openness and humility amongst the vast majority of Portuguese people (though not all, as I'm sure my Portuguese friends will agree!) that makes Portugal such a pleasure to visit. People are for the most part kind, considerate and welcoming. It's very easy to be won over by this endearing national characteristic. If the various regions of the interior can be brought to life again in the next 20 to 30 years then that would be wonderful.

The high taxes ,lack of jobs and low wages make it more difficult...

This video has one of the most pleasant sounding narrators I’ve ever heard. I loved listening to him

The Portuguese love so much Spain they don't even want to live too close to it 😅

Sou Portuguesa e fim aos EUA por 2 semanas e já estou ansiosa de voltar a Portugal por várias razões: 1 - A comida saudável de Portugal. Nos EUA tem muita variedade, mas é muito difícil encontrar alimentos saudáveis. 2º - Vou vegana e se quero comer em um restaurante em Portugal existem muitos restaurantes vegetarianos! Mesmo os que não são vegetarianos e em todos os restaurantes têm refeição vegetariana. 3º - As frutas em todo o lado têm um sabor muito bom enquanto nos EUA é muito difícil encontrar frutas com sabor a fruta. Aqui até a fruta não é saudável. 4º - Os hotéis de Portugal têm um atendimento superior e qualidade muito superior aos hotéis dos EUA. 5º - Em todos os cantos de Portugal eu me sinto segura mesmo perto dos bairros de pessoas pobres e mesmo em lugares com drogados eu sei que eles não me vão atacar e sei que não vão fazer violência comigo. 6 º - Se acontecer alguma avaria no meu carro nas estradas de Portugal eu sei que em 15 minutos tenho um carro para me socorrer. Mesmo em estradas secundarias sei que o máximo 30 m tenho algum segurança que vem me ajudar. 7º - Eu sou mulher e conduzo uma Motor Home e eu sei que posso parar em qualquer lugar e dormir sem estar com medo de vir alguém para me fazer mal. 8 º Eu nasci em Africa e não queria vir para Portugal, até hoje eu queria encontrar outro pais na minha reforma, mas reconheço que Portugal tem muitas coisas boas que outros países não têm. 9º - Quando eu viajo pela Europa e volto a Portugal eu me sinto muito feliz ao chegar a Portugal porque tem muito sol o ano inteiro raramente as nuvens escondem o nosso maravilhoso sol! 10º - Portugal tem restaurantes chineses onde eu posso comer saudável e tem muitas outras lojas chineses que têm tudo e onde posso comprar barato.

We will be in Lisbon 26 Apr 24 for 9 nights to tour Portugal with Gate 1. We have been to Lisbon before on a cruise, but this will be our first visit to the rest of the country. We are really looking forward to our visit! Thanks for posting!

Lisbon and The Porto are so liveble, alot of czech's lives there, so do I.

Is not a problem of geography, its the lack of incentives to move into interior! It's a problem of lituralization and migration

Bom dia. Ainda existe muita gente do norte de Portugal na região do Algarve. 😊❤

Thank you for the information

I like the music and the content!😊

The interior having mountains areas is not exacly a reason for depopulation, since there are cities in the mountains anyway. There are enough roads and highways to cover that area as well. The high altitudes you mention are on the top of the mountains, and (of course) noone lives there, and that area is not long enough to be relevant. But its a good video overall!

More Portuguese people live in south eastern Massachusetts than in mainland Portugal.

Thank you for sharing!

@antonio de Jesus Viveiros Responding to: I'm Portuguese too and I think that the overall analysis is spot on. I frequently travel Portugal form north to south and from the coast to the interior, and I know for a fact the narrator to be correct. For a 12 minute piece a lot has been said and shown to comprehend how Portugal is the way it is

Beautiful country. ❤ I would prefer to live in the mountains. I love cold weather and snow makes everything look so beautiful.

Outdated and inacurate. For over 2 years people have come to the interior, i have lived for 2 years in three diferent red zones with not so much sparse population, let alone "uninhabited" and more over I have traveled over 10.000km on the red zones and outside of the cities you have small vilages all over, lots of abandoned or holiday houses and large farming or cattle fields between the vilages but its inhabited anyhow.

Great video!!

I found your report very informative. Thanks

A well balanced documentary. However, maybe because the producers are American, they've overlooked the rest of the world. In the 1960's many, many Portuguese imigrated to South Africa, my family being one of them. There were over 250k Portuguese living in South Africa before 1994.

I live below Serra da Estrela. I'm from Brazil but me and family immigrated to Portugal in 2019. That's amazing country with good people! Like you said in the video, the infrastructure in transport it's a problem here ! But I love Portugal !

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome presentation and informative

you should do a tutorial on how you do your vieos it is really interesting!

Finally something about us portugueses! Even though you forgot metion Azores and Madeira archipelagos. The azores island are less populated and some still rural. We also have our cultural diferences for exemple in azores we celebrate a holidya called "Espirito santo" or holy ghost in english. And azores also are pretty much natural reserves like forests and the pico mountain, the highest point in portugal. And many islands consist in tourism as its economy.

Real life lore will be proud of you!

super helpful thank you

I spent couple of days of summer’22 in the North part of the Interior and never seen drier place on Earth. The villages were abandoned or almost abandoned and the existing B&Bs try to attract people with the „great hiking” and what not, but let’s face it - climat changes and currently, the Interior is a complete desert. I love Portugal but I coule not imagine living in the Interior even if they gave me a house for free. Roads are great, infeastructure is impressive for sure.

Excellent report. Thank you.

Very thorough.

Excellent vid..🎉

It's less about geography and more about politics, Lisbon is the biggest city and has the most job opportunities, educated young people from the interior go to Lisbon to get a job, stay there and start families, little by little Lisbon's population grows and the interior's declines, and when it comes to election the most populated areas elect the most MPs. Portalegre, the least populated district currently elects only 2, as the population declines eventually it may becomes 1. So for the politician's there isn't alot to gain for adressing the interior's needs when one or two cities on the coast are worth more votes then several districts combined. That is why we hear so much about an airport in Lisbon and not one more into the interior with good connection to Lisbon and politicians only talk about high speed railway from Lisbon to Porto and not from Lisbon to Madrid which would bring alot on investment and jobs to the interior

I´m a bit sceptic of the empty lands inside Portugal. OK, I was only as tourist there and most of the time in the populated areas. But I was also interested in the inside and went with train from Lisboa to Tomar. This was the last station of the train and it took 2 hours. This is a small town in the center of Portugal that has a lot of history and a very nice city center. It is not too big, you do not have many tourists there, but thre are plenty of nice restaurants and city life. There are big school builduings and a university for technology. The city did not look like it gets abandoned soon. On the contrary I can imagine to settle there if I move to Portugal. The travelling from Lisabon there were several smaller towns and it was not that crowded, but not empty. When I travelled through France I went through many areas which were far more empty. Same for Spain and of course there are some areas in Portugal, where you find only a few people. The population in Portugal is slightly increasing, that´s the opposite to Italy for example.This country is liked a lot and I assume many people will move to Portugal in the future. No worries that Portugal will not have any people in the future.

My family visited Portugal in 2022 and had a wonderful time in Lisbon and Porto. We enjoyed riding the train from Lisbon to Porto and seeing the art and architecture of both cites. It would be fun to return and visit the more rural areas and perhaps stay a bit longer.

Great video

Nice Video, but as a portuguese myself, i really dont agree that part of the "regional proud" and "dialects". There are obsviously some diferences in accent (NOT DIALECTS), Cuizine, costumes and even sports between someone from the North, the South or Madeira & Azores, (it is more in terms of jokes, more in a friendly way) i assure you it is a lot less than compared to countries like Spain, Italy or Belgium. Also, a key factor you left out, is that most (not all but almost) Universities are on the Coastal Cities, many students just find work around that area after finishing theis degrees instead of comming back to the rural country where they probably won't find anything related to what they studied, or, even if they do, they are generally less paid compared to what they'll earn working around Lisbon or Porto. After Covid and with Homeworking being implemented in many areas, there is now people in their late 20's and 30's either returning or trying to move to the rural areas, where houses are a lot bigger and cheaper.

Fun Fact: Portalegre has the smallest population, while smaller districts, like Braga or Lisboa or Porto, even the autonomous Regions of Madeira and Azores have bigger population Population: Lisbon has the most

m Portuguese. I don't think that Portugal is 70% empty, it doesn't correspond to the truth. I don't know what that ridiculous percentage is based on.

vry good video very well prepared thanks billions .

The video worries more about Portugal than portuguese politicians. 😂

We’ll both my parents come from the Northern red parts. They immigrated to America. Here I am.

Good information.

I’m Proud to be a Sri Lankan Portugess 😊

The majority of sparsely populated areas are mainly suited to subsistence farming,damned hard work and not for the fainthearted...or the lazy...Portuguese farmers are made of hard stuff ..forza 🤗

Na verdade, o interior não é habitado como o litoral. Isso não é o mesmo que vazio. Cada região tem o seu sotaque, tal como todos os outros países. Assim como ditados populares, adivinhas e anedotas. A rivalidade só existe no futebol ⚽. Portugal 🇵🇹 é na verdade um país cheio de contrastes e controvérsias.

With all these questions. The answer is normally navigable water ways.

Portugal looks like paradise in comparison to a Canadian winter.

Great video, beautiful landscapes! Just to add another point, to what had been said, that it was like this, right from the start. It was also a good strategy to not populate near the boarder, for security. The same on the other side of the boarder. That resulted in one of the more stable frontiers of Europe throughout the centuries.

a video about continental portugal with a lot of images from madeira, fail

its the same quite everywhere in europe. in France too, we have a diagonal of desertic countryside. This is linked to a migration to the cities where work is concentrated. But things are changing and people are gradually leaving the cities to repopulate the less densely populated areas and bring in employment other than agricultural jobs.

Very good information

You use the word significant a lot. Try using it less. Good video keep up :)

Saying salazar favored the coastal regions is a compliment. He favored lisbon. That's it. Porto was characterized by its slums and it was the second largest city. Centralizations is still a problem but Porto has always fought against it hard, so hard that we refused tk be the capital way back in the days of the reconquista. Against everyone and everything in the invicta as always lmao

Many English people have moved to Portugal Your program is very interesting

As a portuguese, it is my sad duty to say that the worst factor for interior desertification in last decades was not geographic or historic, but has been the lack of political will and competence... we have been paying a heavy price for such lack of strategic vision

LOL. The footage at 1:02 showing mainland Portugal’s rugged mountains is actually footage of Madeira Island, not mainland Portugal.

This is not true.

Similar to Taiwan where 90% of the people live in the coastal strip on the west side and two thirds of the island is either lightly populated or too mountainous for settlements.

A report of significant significance.

This video is a joke right?

The demographic situation in Portugal seems similar to that in Spain. Thanks for posting.

You described Portugal very well, you just forgot to talk about Portuguese wine. Congratulations on the excellent work. And to all the people of the world, Portugal awaits you with open arms. Welcome

Living in those regions is actually synonymous to healthy life. I live there, as well as in the city.

Most of the world is "empty" (without a human population). There is so much land that is just too inconvenient/problematic to live in, and also, people tend to stick together. I live in Canada... it is just big and empty. If you wanted to stay here, and disappear from the civilized world, there are plenty of remote locations where you could do so.

That's not true, interior has less people but has many small cities.

É para termos locais para ir acampar e estar em contacto com a natureza. ;)

Just visited Portugal for 18 days , from north to South and like it very much, find Alentejo the most beautiful region, being a Brazilian living in South Africa was easy with the language, still 500 thousand Portuguese people living in South Africa

I do not see why this is a problem to be solved. People all around the world like to live close to the oceans/seas. I would be more concerned with getting sufficient water to the south and continue to upgrade services where people are located... but that is just me.

Congratulations! Great video about Portugal

Lovely country. It has great variety to offer, at fairly close distances.