Alameda D. Afonso Henriques and the Fonte Luminosa
Today: Alameda D. Afonso Henriques / the Fonte Monumental (Fonte Luminosa)
Places
96 places where history happened. Many are still there; some have changed their name and their purpose; others survive only in memory and in the sources.
In Lisbon · 93
Alcântara Maritime Station
Today: A maritime station and the Almada Murals Interpretation Centre
Aljube Prison
Today: Aljube Museum – Resistance and Freedom
Avenida Barbosa du Bocage, no. 96 (Josué Trocado’s private chapel)
Today: Avenida Barbosa du Bocage
A Voz do Operário (The Worker’s Voice)
Today: A Voz do Operário Education and Welfare Society
Barracks of Light Artillery Regiment No. 1 (RAL 1, later RALIS)
Today: Quartel da Encarnação, do Regimento de Transportes
Boa-Hora Court
Today: Former court, closed since 2009
Botequim
Today: Botequim bar (reopened in 2010 by new owners)
Café Chave d'Ouro
Today: A Caixa Geral de Depósitos bank branch
Café Gelo
Today: Gelo, a seafood restaurant since 2024
Calçada Ribeiro Santos
Today: Calçada Ribeiro Santos (formerly Calçada de Santos)
Capela do Rato
Today: Capela do Rato (Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Bonança)
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo’s surgery (Rua Nova do Almada, 84)
Today: A building with a shop on the ground floor
Church of Santa Engrácia – National Pantheon
Today: National Pantheon
Church of São Domingos
Today: Church of São Domingos
Cidade Universitária Canteen
Today: Cantina Velha (Old Canteen) of the University of Lisbon
Cidade Universitária de Lisboa (University Stadium and faculties)
Today: Cidade Universitária – University of Lisbon
Clube Estefânia — São Jorge de Arroios polling station (1911)
On 28 May 1911, the São Jorge de Arroios polling station was set up here. It was there that the doctor Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, registered by order of a judge, became the first woman to vote in Portugal.
Coliseu dos Recreios
Today: Coliseu dos Recreios
Cordoaria Nacional (Colonial Hospital and School of Tropical Medicine)
Today: Cordoaria Nacional; the building houses the Navy Historical Archive
D. Maria II National Theatre
Today: D. Maria II National Theatre
Doca de Alcântara (the attack on the freighter “Cunene”)
Today: Doca de Alcântara
Dr Afonso Costa Republican School Centre — evening classes for women (Calçada de Arroios)
In this republican centre on Calçada de Arroios, while the monarchy still ruled, Maria Veleda set up free evening courses to teach women to read and write; in 1907, the Portuguese Group for Feminist Studies gave classes here to illiterate women.
Edifício Franjinhas — the restaurant of the carnations
Today: Edifício Franjinhas
Editorial offices of the newspaper “A Capital” (Rua do Norte, 3)
At no. 3 Rua do Norte, on the corner with Praça de Luís de Camões, were the editorial offices of “A Capital”, a republican evening daily. Virgínia Quaresma, the first woman journalist in Portugal, wrote for it and lived just opposite; in 1911, the paper told the story of Carolina Beatriz Ângelo’s fight for the vote.
Emissora Nacional (Rua do Quelhas)
The regime’s official radio station was occupied in the early hours of 25 April 1974 by a small force from the Serra da Carregueira Firing Range, to serve as the MFA’s reserve broadcaster. It was fought over again on 11 March and 25 November 1975.
Emissores Associados de Lisboa (the studio on Avenida Elias Garcia)
From the studio that the Emissores Associados de Lisboa had on the 7th floor of this building, the announcer João Paulo Diniz put “E Depois do Adeus” (And After the Goodbye) on the air at 22:55 on 24 April 1974 — the first signal of the Armed Forces Movement.
Espírito Santo family home — seat of the Centre for African Studies
In 1951 the Centre for African Studies was set up in the house where the São Toméan poet Alda do Espírito Santo lived: Amílcar Cabral, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Francisco José Tenreiro and others met here to “get to know Africa”, away from the eyes of the PIDE.
FNAT Stadium (renamed Estádio 1.º de Maio)
Today: Estádio 1.º de Maio
Headquarters of the Censorship Services / “Prior Examination” (1969-1974)
Today: A building on Rua da Misericórdia
Headquarters of the “Diário da Manhã” (Rua da Misericórdia, 95)
Today: 25 April Association
Headquarters of the newspaper República (Rua da Misericórdia)
At no. 116 stood República, the daily of the democratic opposition. It took part in the 25 April conspiracy, came out that day without going through the censors and, in May 1975, gave its name to one of the great crises of the revolution, the “República affair”.
Headquarters of the Portuguese Women’s Association for Peace
Headquarters of the Portuguese Women’s Association for Peace, which from 1935 to 1952 brought women together for peace and for their rights — from Maria Lamas, its president, to Stella Piteira Santos, Isabel Aboim Inglez and Maria Alda Nogueira. The Minister of the Interior dissolved it in 1952.
Headquarters of the Republican League of Portuguese Women (Rua dos Castelinhos, 6)
The Republican League of Portuguese Women — the league of Ana de Castro Osório, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, Adelaide Cabete and Maria Veleda — was founded in 1909 on the 2nd floor of no. 6 on this street. It was the first association to bring together the defence of feminism and of the Republic.
Headquarters of the Seamstresses and Stitchers’ trade association (Rua do Benformoso)
In 1915 the Seamstresses and Stitchers’ union had its headquarters here. It was here that Adelaide Abrantes called the women workers of Ramiro Leão & C.ª, who went on strike against the dismissal of three colleagues and were dispersed by the GNR.
Home of Carolina Beatriz Ângelo and Januário Barreto (Rua do Sol ao Rato, 181)
In 1909 the doctor Carolina Beatriz Ângelo lived here with her husband, the republican doctor Januário Barreto. His funeral left from here in 1910; widowhood made her a “head of family”, the status with which, in 1911, she became the first woman to vote in Portugal.
Home of Natália Correia
Natália Correia lived on the fifth floor of no. 52 from 1953 until her death in 1993. In the 1950s and 1960s the flat hosted her salons and, in 1955, a theatre premiere behind closed doors: her translation of Sartre’s “Huis clos”.
Home of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen lived on the first floor of no. 57 from 1951 until her death in 2004. A home with its doors open to the opposition, with one side facing the river and the other the lane of the Mónicas women’s prison.
House of the Students of the Empire (CEI)
Today: Office and residential building
House where Angelina Vidal died (Rua de São Gens, 41)
Today: A small single-storey house
Instituto Superior Técnico
Today: Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon
ISCEF, in the Quelhas
Today: ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Lanceiros 2 Barracks / Military Police Regiment (Calçada da Ajuda)
On 25 April 1974 the command post of the forces loyal to the regime was set up in the Lanceiros 2 barracks, on Calçada da Ajuda, until the soldiers themselves sided with the Movement. On 25 November 1975, the Commandos attacked the Military Police Regiment here: three people were killed.
Largo do Caldas / Rua da Madalena
Today: Largo Adelino Amaro da Costa
Largo do Carmo and the Carmo Barracks
Today: GNR General Command and the National Republican Guard Museum
Largo do Rato (formerly Praça do Brasil)
Today: Largo do Rato
Last headquarters of the CNMP, closed by the police in 1947
In 1946, the National Council of Portuguese Women, chaired by Maria Lamas, moved its headquarters to this lane in Amoreiras. On 28 June 1947, the police closed it “without prior notice”, putting an end to 33 years of the association.
Liceu de Camões
Today: Camões Secondary School
Liceu Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho (successor to the Liceu Maria Pia, the first girls’ secondary school)
Today: Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Secondary School
Lisbon Airport (Portela)
Today: Humberto Delgado Airport
Lisbon Cathedral (Sé Patriarcal)
Today: Lisbon Cathedral (Church of Santa Maria Maior)
Lisbon Civil Government and the PSP’s 1st Station
Today: The building of the former Civil Government
Lisbon Penitentiary
Today: Lisbon Prison
MFA Command Post – Engineering Regiment No. 1 (Pontinha Barracks)
Today: The MFA Command Post Museum, in the Pontinha Barracks
“Mitra” – the Mitra Asylum and the 3rd Post of the PSP’s 14th Station
Today: Palácio da Mitra
Mónicas Prison
Today: The former Convent of Santa Mónica
National Council of Portuguese Women
Today: Praça dos Restauradores, 13
National Society of Fine Arts
Today: National Society of Fine Arts (Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes)
O Século — the newsroom of “Modas e Bordados”
Today: Palácio Lançada, Rua de O Século
Paço de São Cristóvão / Palácio Vagos — Mutual Aid Association of Commercial Employees of Lisbon
Today: São Cristóvão Clinic, run by the Mutual Aid Association of Commercial Employees of Lisbon
Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries)
Today: A monument with a viewpoint, an auditorium and exhibition rooms
Palacete de São Bento – Salazar’s official residence
Today: Official residence of the Prime Minister
Palácio Burnay (Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Overseas Policy)
Today: A palace awaiting restoration, approved in 2024, as the headquarters of Museus e Monumentos de Portugal
Palácio Camarido – FNAT headquarters
Today: Headquarters of the INATEL Foundation
Palácio da Cova da Moura
Today: Serviços do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (em 2024, a Secretaria de Estado dos Assuntos Europeus)
Palácio da Independência – headquarters of the Portuguese Youth (Mocidade Portuguesa)
Today: Palácio da Independência (Historical Society of the Independence of Portugal)
Palácio de Belém
Today: Palácio de Belém – Presidency of the Republic
Palácio de São Bento
Today: Assembly of the Republic
Palácio Foz – National Propaganda Secretariat / National Information Secretariat (SPN/SNI)
Today: Palácio Foz: public services and the National Sports Museum
Parque Eduardo VII
Today: Parque Eduardo VII
Portuguese Legion Command
On 25 April 1974 the general command of the Portuguese Legion — the regime’s militia, created in 1936, with a network of informers and shock troops — stood in Largo da Penha de França. Surrounded by Major Jaime Neves’s column, it surrendered without incident.
Portuguese Society of Writers (headquarters)
The Portuguese Society of Writers was on the first floor of no. 20 on this street. In May 1965, for having given a prize to “Luuanda”, by Luandino Vieira, then a prisoner at Tarrafal, it was dissolved by the government, and its headquarters were raided and wrecked that same night.
Praça do Império
Today: A public garden, with the Fonte Monumental in the centre
PVDE / PIDE / DGS headquarters
Today: Residential apartment complex
Rádio Clube Português (the Rua Sampaio e Pina studios)
In the early hours of 25 April 1974, MFA officers occupied these studios and made Rádio Clube Português the voice of the Movement: at 04:26, Joaquim Furtado read the first communiqué here. In the afternoon, it was a woman, Clarisse Guerra, who read another.
Rádio Renascença (the Rua Capelo studios)
Today: A hotel, The Ivens
Rectorate of the University of Lisbon
Today: Rectorate of the University of Lisbon
Rossio (Praça de D. Pedro IV)
Today: Praça D. Pedro IV
RTP studios in Lumiar
The former RTP studios in Lumiar were occupied in the early hours of 25 April 1974 by a column from the Military Administration Practical School. It was from here that the National Salvation Junta presented itself to the country, in the early hours of the 26th.
Rua Angelina Vidal
In 1924 the former Caminho do Forno do Tijolo was named after Angelina Vidal, a republican propagandist, with the caption “Illustrious Lecturer and Propagandist of Social Emancipation”. She did not live here: she died in 1917 on nearby Rua de São Gens.
Rua da Creche (where José Dias Coelho was murdered)
Today: Rua José Dias Coelho
Rua do Arsenal and Avenida da Ribeira das Naus
On the Ribeira das Naus and Rua do Arsenal, on the morning of 25 April 1974, the soldiers of the forces loyal to the regime refused Brigadier Junqueira dos Reis’s orders to fire on Salgueiro Maia. “That was where 25 April was won” (Foi ali que se ganhou o 25 de Abril), Maia would say.
Rua do Carmo — Celeste Caeiro’s carnations
Today: Rua do Carmo
Santa Apolónia Station
Today: Santa Apolónia railway station
São José Hospital
Today: São José Hospital
São Luiz Theatre
Today: São Luiz Municipal Theatre
Streets of the republican feminists in the Quinta dos Condes de Carnide
Today: Rua Adelaide Cabete, Rua Ana de Castro Osório and Rua Maria Veleda
Streets of the women pioneers in Bairro de Caselas
Today: Rua Carolina Ângelo, Rua Virgínia Quaresma, Rua Aurora de Castro, Rua Alice Pestana, Rua Olga Morais Sarmento and others
Terreiro do Paço (Praça do Comércio)
Today: Praça do Comércio
The “A Padaria do Povo” cooperative (the People’s Bakery)
Today: Cooperative, bar and cultural space
Tropical Botanical Garden (formerly the Colonial Garden)
Today: Tropical Botanical Garden — National Museum of Natural History and Science (University of Lisbon)
Vasco Santana Theatre (former Feira Popular funfair)
Today: Building works for the EntreCampos development, on the site of the former Feira Popular
Villaret Theatre
Today: Villaret Theatre
Around Lisbon · 1
Caxias Fort — the political prison
Today: Caxias Prison
Further afield · 2
Peniche Fortress — the political prison
Today: National Museum of Resistance and Freedom
Tarrafal Concentration Camp (Cape Verde)
Today: The former Tarrafal concentration camp (Chão Bom), on the island of Santiago
