Carmo Archaeological Museum
Roofless Gothic nave kept since 1755 as an earthquake memorial, with archaeology exhibits inside.
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This guide to the Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon starts with the 1755 earthquake that toppled the church's stone vaults, leaving its Gothic arches open to the sky as a deliberate memorial. Two centuries later, on the morning of April 25th, 1974, the same square became the stage for a coup against Portugal's dictatorship, as army units and tanks moved into Lisbon and crowds gathered outside its walls. Stand under those open arches and picture Captain Salgueiro Maia's tanks filling the narrow streets around you.
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