Portugal. History as it really was. (With a smile.) A new episode every week.https://portugalstory.pt/enhttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-algarve-cost-one-marriage-too-many/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-algarve-cost-one-marriage-too-many/In 1249, with Faro, almost all the Algarve becomes Portuguese. But the king of Castile wanted the Algarve too, and peace was made with a wedding — the problem being that the Portuguese king was already married. A papal interdict, a countess left behind in France, and a little grandson to close the deal.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-king-the-pope-pushed-aside/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-king-the-pope-pushed-aside/The little boy in the 1214 will grew up, became king and conquered half the Alentejo. Then the Pope handed the government to his brother, who lived in France — and swore he wasn't taking anything from the king. A civil war, a queen who vanishes in the night, and a castle at Lanhoso sold off.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-king-who-made-his-will-in-perfect-health/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-king-who-made-his-will-in-perfect-health/A king not yet thirty, in the middle of a war against his own sisters, sets down what happens when he dies. Thirteen copies, a pope, a daughter who could inherit the crown — and the language people spoke in the street, written down by a king for the first time we know of.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-crusaders-who-were-going-to-jerusalem/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-crusaders-who-were-going-to-jerusalem/A hundred-odd ships from northern Europe bound for the Holy Land, a bishop of Porto with a gift for salesmanship, a four-month siege — and the account of a priest who sailed with the English and saw it all, including what his own allies did when they got in.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-miracle-someone-invented-later/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-miracle-someone-invented-later/A battle we know little about, a Christ who only appears in the sky in the 15th century, a forged oath supposedly "copied" from a monastery, and a historian who started a war with the clergy by telling the truth.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-name-portugal-was-born-in-a-port/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-name-portugal-was-born-in-a-port/A Gothic king who loses the Peninsula in one battle, more than a hundred years of a land without a master, and a nobleman who in 868 takes a port called Portucale.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-bishop-who-changed-the-days-of-the-week/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-bishop-who-changed-the-days-of-the-week/A Germanic kingdom with its capital in Braga, a king caught at Portucale, and a bishop from far away who got angry with the people of the Minho for lighting candles to springs.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/how-did-we-end-up-speaking-latin/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/how-did-we-end-up-speaking-latin/An outsider who wrote to the local gods in Latin, a former slave who paid to do up a theatre in Lisbon, and six centuries in which nobody noticed the switch.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-kid-who-went-to-war-against-his-mother/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-kid-who-went-to-war-against-his-mother/Midsummer's Day, 1128. A field near Guimarães. A boy of about nineteen on one side, his mother on the other, and a country nobody expected to exist.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-river-that-made-you-forget/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-river-that-made-you-forget/A whole Roman army stopped on the bank of the river Lima, afraid of forgetting home. Around 137 BC.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-shepherd-rome-only-beat-by-paying-traitors/https://portugalstory.pt/episodes/the-shepherd-rome-only-beat-by-paying-traitors/Before there was a Portugal, there was a man from the hills who humiliated Rome for years. Rome solved the problem the cheapest way it could.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT