Aljube Museum - Resistance & Freedom
Former political prison and torture centre, now a museum of resistance to Salazar's dictatorship.
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This guide to the Aljube Museum in Lisbon walks through the cramped isolation cells, the gavetas, where Salazar's secret police held political suspects on this building's second floor for decades. It covers the interrogation methods used inside, the folding beds that left barely room to stand, and the mugshots on the wall, including a young Mário Soares, later Portugal's prime minister and president, pictured alongside his friend the painter Júlio Pomar. Give the reconstructed cells a moment of stillness as you move through them.
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