Revolution · on foot
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
- 2.4 km
- Duration
- 1 h 30 min
- Stops
- 7 stops
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Walk
Walks
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.
On foot
Women · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Demanding
Repression · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Revolution · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Repression · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Colonialism · on foot
Do Padrão ao cais
O império que o Estado Novo encenou em Belém, as pessoas das colónias expostas em 1940, os embarques para a guerra e o regresso de 1975
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Duration
- 2 h 10 min
- Stops
- 8 stops
- Difficulty
- Easy
Republic · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Opposition · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Culture and censorship · on foot
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
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Further afield, by metro and train
Places that history linked and the city set apart. They are done in sections, by metro and by train.
Students · by metro and train
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
- Difficulty
- Easy
Revolution · by metro and train
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
- Difficulty
- Easy