The President of the Republic and the Prime Minister will also attend the UEFA League final that will be played between Portugal and Spain in Munich.
The President of the Republic will move to Germany over the weekend – on Saturday he will be in Estagario and Sunday in Munich – to celebrate Portugal, Camões and Portuguese communities.
According to the note issued by, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be accompanied by the Prime Minister, to mark the date “with our compatriots in that region”.
In Munich, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Luís Montenegro will also watch the UEFA League final that will be played between Portugal and Spain.
The Portuguese Day celebrations abroad were scheduled for Macao, but were canceled following the fall of the previous PSD/CDS-PP government and convening anticipated legislative elections to May 18.
Celebrations in the Algarve day 10
The President of the Republic decided to spend his last day of Portugal as head of state in Lagosin the Algarve, extending to the Portuguese community in Macau.
The writer Lidia Jorge will be chairman of the organizing committee of the celebrations and the commission is part of General José Nunes da Fonseca, head of the General State of the Armed Forces, the Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, Ana Cristina Batista, and the head of the Protocol of State, Jorge da Silva Lopes.
The city of Lagos is once again the stage of the celebrations of Portugal Day, 29 years after the June 10, in 1996, was there by the then President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio.
Return to the World in Days of Portugal
The current model of pairs celebrations of June 10 (in Portugal and also with Portuguese communities abroad) was launched by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa when he took the head of the state, in 2016, in articulation with the then Prime Minister, António Costa, and with the participation of both.
In 2016 Portugal Day was celebrated between Lisbon and Paris, in 2017 between Porto and Brazil, in 2018 between the Azores and the United States of America and in 2019 between Portalegre and Cape Verde.
In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only one ceremony was held at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, and in 2021 there were also only celebrations in national territory, in Madeira.
In 2022 the celebrations were in Braga and the United Kingdom, and in 2023 in the Peso da Régua, Vila Real district, and in South Africa, for the last time with António Costa as Prime Minister.
In 2024, with Luís Montenegro on the head of the government, June 10 was celebrated in three municipalities of Leiria affected by the 2017 fires – Pedrógão Grande, Figueiró dos Vinhos and Castanheira de Pera – and in Coimbra, and Switzerland.
