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The first day
25 April 1974 hour by hour, from the Terreiro do Paço to the Carmo and the door of the political police
- Distance
- 2.3 km
- Duration
- 1 h 30 min
- Stops
- 7 stops
Walks
12 walks: 10 on foot and 2 by metro and train.
On foot · 10
Women
Graça, the women’s hill
Seamstresses on strike, a republican propagandist, a women’s prison, a bar and a poet — Graça as they tell it
- Distance
- 1.7 km
- Duration
- 1 h 15 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
Repression
The Estado Novo, explained
How a dictatorship lasted 48 years: the leader, the façade, the single party, the family, work and propaganda — from São Bento to Restauradores
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Duration
- 2 h 20 min
- Stops
- 9 stops
Revolution
The figures of April
From the Aljube to São Bento, the lives of Soares, Cunhal and Salgueiro Maia — and those of Maria Barroso, Sofia Ferreira, Natália Correia and Pintasilgo
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Duration
- 1 h 40 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
Repression
The machinery of repression
The prison, the court, the lock-ups, the police, censorship and propaganda — the dictatorship fitted into a kilometre and a half
- Distance
- 2.3 km
- Duration
- 1 h 25 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
Colonialism
From the Padrão to the quay
The empire the Estado Novo staged in Belém, the people from the colonies put on display in 1940, the embarkations for the war and the return of 1975
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Duration
- 2 h 10 min
- Stops
- 8 stops
Republic
Carolina’s vote
The suffragists of the First Republic, from the Baixa to Arroios — doctors, teachers and journalists who asked for the vote, and one who voted
- Distance
- 4.1 km
- Duration
- 1 h 50 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
Opposition
From Rato to the Park
The women’s associations the regime shut down, the vigil against the war, the radio station of the revolution and the feminist demonstration of 1975
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Duration
- 2 h
- Stops
- 8 stops
Culture and censorship
Forbidden words
Cafés, churches, stages and newsrooms where people said what the censors would not allow — from “Obviously, I’ll sack him!” to “Grândola” at the Coliseu
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Duration
- 1 h 55 min
- Stops
- 8 stops
Culture and censorship
A seagull was flying
From the songs the censors cut to the song the streets sang, from the Chiado to Entrecampos
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Duration
- 2 h 10 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
Further afield, by metro and train · 2
Places that history linked and the city set apart. They are done in sections, by metro and by train.
Students
Students against the dictatorship
From the academic crisis of 1962 to the death of Ribeiro Santos in 1972 — and the house from which the leaders of African independence emerged
- How it’s done
- in sections
- Stops
- 9 stops
Revolution
The days of freedom
From the MFA command post to the Constituent Assembly — the week that changed everything, and the 27 women who wrote the Constitution
- How it’s done
- in sections
- Stops
- 7 stops
Each walk is a story told in the places where it happened, with the map, the people, the dates and the archive images — and a voice that reads the story to you as you walk.