The Historian · Rui · Lisbon
Largo do Carmo
The regime ended on this square. Caetano gave up in the barracks while people put carnations in the soldiers' rifles.
The quiet jacaranda square where the dictatorship fell on 25 April 1974 — Salazar's successor surrendered here.
— Rui, The Historian
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