National Museum Of Resistance And Freedom In Portugal

PENICHE, PORTUGAL - MAY 13: Ramparts at Peniche Fortress, the maximum security prison during the dictatorship, housing nowadays the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom on May 13, 2024, in Peniche, Portugal. The National Museum of Resitance and Freedom was inaugurated on April 27, 2024, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of "a day of great freedom" experienced by the political prisoners at Peniche Fortress when the gates of the various prisons of the Estado Novo opened after 48 years of repression and dictatorship. Peniche Fortress was established by the dictatorship as a maximum security prison, for its inmates were considered extremely dangerous for the regime. The museum director Aida Rechena explained that "it was imperative that the first long-term exhibition was representative, on the one hand, of the struggle and repression suffered by the political prisoners incarcerated here and their families and, on the other hand, to be a tribute to the multiple, transversal, heroic resistance of the Portuguese people". On April 25, 1974, the Carnation Revolution put an end to the National Dictatorship (1926-1933) and the Estado Novo of Salazar and Marcello Caetano (1933-1974) that were together the longest authoritarian regime in Western Europe during the 20th century, spanning 48 years. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)