28 Feb, 2025 @ 15:22
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High-speed rail link between Spain and Portugal to be completed by 2032

SPAIN and Portugal will be connected by a high-speed train by 2032, according to Portugal’s infrastructure minister. 

The high-speed line will link the popular Portuguese destination of Porto and the Galician port city, Vigo. 

Miguel Pinto Luz, Portuguese Minister for Infrastructure confirmed the plans this week at an event in Vigo. 

He says both Portuguese and Spanish authorities are aiming to finish the project within seven years. 

“It will have a unique geostrategic position. We’ll have a new macro-region that will lead the economy,” Pinto Luz said. 

“We don’t think that the country is just Lisbon. We see Porto as a new hub and Galicia as a key partner,” he assured.

Joined by Galician president, Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela, they announced plans to make northern Spain and Portugal a ‘major competitor’ in Europe’s tourism economy. 

By 2034, it is hoped another rail line linking Lisbon and Madrid will also be finished. 

However, according to Porto Mayor, Rui Moreira the Port-Vigo line will be used ‘seven times more’.

He also urged officials to ‘think outside their capitals’ and develop ‘high speed, clean and sustainable infrastructure’ that Europe ‘urgently needs.’

Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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