Headquarters of the “Diário da Manhã” (Rua da Misericórdia, 95)

Before it housed a regime newspaper, this building with an asymmetrical, Art Nouveau-inspired façade was the headquarters of O Mundo (The World), the first daily to report the proclamation of the Republic. In tribute to the newspaper, Rua Larga de São Roque was renamed Rua do Mundo — it is today’s Rua da Misericórdia.¹

On 4 April 1931, already under the dictatorship, the first issue of the Diário da Manhã (Morning Daily), edited by Domingos Garcia Pulido, came out of here. In its first editorial it called itself a “republican newspaper”, but it was the semi-official organ and indoctrination vehicle of the National Union, the single party, and as the Estado Novo (“New State”) consolidated itself it gradually became a newspaper devoted to the cult of Salazar.² Opposite stood República, the opposition newspaper.¹ The last issue of the Diário da Manhã came out on 30 January 1971, with Marcelo Caetano by then in government; it was succeeded by Época (Epoch), which also had its headquarters here.²¹

On 26 April 1974, the day after the revolution, the people wrecked the headquarters of Época, of National Popular Action — the name the National Union had taken under Caetano — and of the censorship office, which worked nearby, at no. 125 on the same street.³⁴⁵ Since 24 April 2001 the building, rebuilt under the guidance of the architect Siza Vieira, has been the headquarters of the 25 April Association, founded in 1982 by officers of the Armed Forces, which brings together the great majority of the military who made 25 April.⁶