Avenida da Liberdade

This guide to Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon opens in the early hours of April 25, 1974, with a restaurant worker named Celeste carrying an armful of red carnations through a city where soldiers and tanks had suddenly appeared. At Rossio Square a soldier asked her for a cigarette, and what she offered him instead began spreading through the crowd. You'll also hear how the boulevard itself came to be, built in the 1880s to rival the grand avenues of Paris.