Casa da Cidadania Salgueiro Maia has already received around 50,000 visitors
Around 50,000 people have visited the Salgueiro Maia Citizenship House in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre district) since it was inaugurated on July 1, 2021, the mayor told the Lusa news agency today. The space evocative of this captain of April, located in the castle of the Alentejo county seat, a state heritage site, is the […]
President of the Portuguese Parliament takes part in the April 25th parade on Avenida da Liberdade
The President of the Portuguese Parliament, Social Democrat José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, will participate institutionally in the traditional parade of the April 25 celebrations, in the afternoon, on Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon. This unprecedented participation of a parliamentary president in the traditional parade promoted by the 25 de Abril Association was conveyed to journalists by […]
April 25: From prayers to “Grândola”, the revolution was reaching the interior of the country
After elementary school, praying daily before the crucifix and the images of Salazar and Marcello Caetano, Maria da Luz began to guard the goats on the slopes of Água Formosa (Vila de Rei), humming songs by Zeca Afonso. It was in the neighboring municipality of Mação (Santarém), where she was studying in 1974, that she […]
April 25: Aveleira celebrated the arrival of electricity with firecrackers in 1979
The village of Aveleira, in the municipality of Vila de Rei, celebrated the arrival of electricity with firecrackers in 1979 and had to wait until the mid-1980s for piped water. “The day the light came on was a day of celebration. The arrival of the light was more celebrated than April 25th,” basket maker José […]
25 April: Vila de Rei experienced a reformist and progressive impulse from the 1990s onwards
The municipality of Vila de Rei, in the district of Castelo Branco, has only experienced a reformist and progressive impulse since 1990, the vice-president of the municipality told the Lusa news agency, highlighting the construction of road accesses. Paulo César Luís is part of the generation of politicians born after April 25, 1974. He doesn’t […]
April 25: Nelinha, the architect who was a weaver in the fight against fascism
He left university and his bourgeois home in Porto to live without electricity or water, washing in the collective tank after the factory, against “fascism, the colonial war and misery”, until freedom arrived 50 years ago. A member of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization (OCMLP), Manuela Juncal, now 74, was also Manuela Gonçalves, or Nelinha: […]
The celebrations of the 50th anniversary of April 25, which began with a left-wing government and ended with a right-wing government, are a virtue of Portugal.
The President of the Republic pointed out today that the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of April 25 began with a left-wing PS government and will end with a right-wing PSD/CDS-PP government. “But this is a virtue of Portugal, it means that there is an obvious national consensus on April 25,” he said. The head […]
Victor Jara Brigade takes on the legacy of the revolution since 1975
The Victor Jara Brigade, which was born in Lousã in 1975, assumes the legacy of April 25 in the area of traditional music as a commitment to the future of democracy. The group, now a cultural cooperative based in Coimbra, had its origins in the Revolutionary Process in Progress (PREC), when students took part in […]
April 25: Images reinterpreted by contemporary artists on display at Lisnave
Seven artists born after April 25, 1974 have reinterpreted images taken by photographer Alfredo Cunha during the ‘Carnation Revolution’, and the result can be seen at the former Lisnave shipyards in Almada from Saturday. With free admission, the exhibition “Portals of Time”, promoted by the Underdogs gallery in partnership with Almada Town Hall, “proposes a […]
April 25: RTP premieres António-Pedro Vasconcelos’ last television project this month
The latest television project by director António-Pedro Vasconcelos, the series “Conspiracy”, will premiere this month on RTP, but will have a premiere on Friday in Lisbon, with the presence of April military personnel, public television has revealed. “Conspiracy” is a documentary series produced by Thrust Media with RTP, conceived and directed by António-Pedro Vasconcelos and […]