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Em Cada Esquina

Lisbon, 1910–1976

The city that resisted

Walking routes through the places where people fought the dictatorship — from the suffragists of the Republic to 25 April, with women at the centre of the story.

The walking routes, to scale, over Lisbon.
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Walks

Walks through the city, each with its own story: the stops in order, the map, what happened on every corner and who was there.

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71 women in this story

Women who would not be silenced

Suffragists, writers, factory workers, doctors, political prisoners, underground activists. The resistance was written by women too — and this app begins with them.

Meet them all

Two smiling young women hold up black handwritten placards, with red carnations drawn on them, under the trees and in the middle of the crowd.
At the 25 April 2024 parade in Lisbon, the lines of “Grândola, Vila Morena” (Grândola, swarthy town) on placards — “On every corner a friend” (Em cada esquina um amigo), “In every face equality” (Em cada rosto igualdade). Anita Braga, CC BY-SA 4.0

The music of the Revolution

Em cada esquina um amigo

A friend on every corner

José Afonso, “Grândola, Vila Morena”

The songs of the resistance and the Revolution, kept in the archives: José Afonso, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, José Mário Branco, Ermelinda Duarte, Luísa Basto and other voices.

Listen to the music of the Revolution

By theme

From the archives

Hear from those who were there

Women who resisted the dictatorship tell, in their own words, what they lived through. The testimonies were recorded by the Aljube Museum; each one is on the page of the person who gave it, next to the biography and the sources.

All the videos and sound

A documentary edited by Sofia Gomes for the exhibition “Women and Resistance – New Portuguese Letters and other struggles” (“Mulheres e Resistência – Novas Cartas Portuguesas e outras lutas”), with excerpts from the testimonies the Aljube Museum has been recording since 2015: sixteen women talk about resistance to the dictatorship and the struggle for women’s rights. This version has Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpretation; the version without LGP is on the same channel (XmUbNbnHgKg, 2022).

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Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, on YouTube. The player only connects to that site when you press “Watch”.

The dates

From the proclamation of the Republic to the 1976 Constitution, and what came after: 440 dates.

  1. 1910Proclamation of the Republic in Lisbon Republic
  2. 1911Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, the first woman to vote in Portugal Women
  3. 1926Military coup of 28 May ends the First Republic Repression
  4. 1933The Estado Novo Constitution comes into force Repression
  5. 1945Founding of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD) Opposition
  6. 1958Humberto Delgado: “Obviously, I’ll sack him!” (Obviamente, demito-o!) Opposition
  7. 1962Students’ Day banned: the 1962 academic crisis begins Students
  8. 1969Sophia de Mello Breyner and Maria Barroso stand as opposition candidates Women
  9. 1972The “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (New Portuguese Letters) are published Women
  10. 1974Celeste Caeiro and the carnations Revolution
  11. 1975Election of the Constituent Assembly: 20 women deputies Women
  12. 1976The Constituent Assembly approves the Constitution of the Republic Revolution

Open the full timelinePIDE, MFA, MUD…: the glossary

After the walk

Further readingBooks, films, museums and archives — each one checked against a source.For schoolsWhich walk suits which year, and how to prepare it with a class.

A project by

Fábio Salgado

Em Cada Esquina tells the history of freedom in Lisbon where it happened: places, people and dates, told from museums, archives, newspapers and studies — with the sources on every page.

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