Museu do Aljube - Resistência e Liberdade
The Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade occupies the former Cadeia do Aljube, a prison near Lisbon’s Sé Cathedral. For centuries it sat between religion and state power: until 1820, it held people convicted through the Ecclesiastical Forum, and later it incarcerated women accused of common crimes until the end of the 1920s. From 1928 until the prison’s closure in 1965, it became a holding place for political prisoners of the Ditadura Nacional and the Estado Novo—a continuity of repression that makes the site more than a relic of punishment. In 2015, the building began a new life as a museum of resistance and liberty. An inscription on the outside pairs the language of confinement with that of release, culminating in “flowered April”—and the date is pressed into the masonry as April 2015, when the museum’s presence took form after 1 January 2015. Notably, former inmates linked to the struggle for change include Mário Soares.
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