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The district also contains the name of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, immortalized on an avenue in Carregal do Sal
Photographer: Jornal do Centro
There are 448 squares, streets, avenues and sidewalks in Portugal that pay tribute to General Humberto Delgado. In Viseu, the opponent of Salazar’s regime was marked in two ways: in a speech given in a hotel in the city and in a square located between Rua Alexandre Lobo and Rua Vitória.
In May 1958, from the balcony of the Grand Hotel Avenida – currently known as Avenida Boutique Hotel – General Humberto Delgado gave his candidacy speech for the Presidency of the Republic, speaking to hundreds of people who gathered at Rossio. Still in the center of Viseu, the square named after the “fearless general” is located between Alexandre Lobo and Vitória streets.
General Humberto Delgado, who challenged the Salazar regime in the 1958 presidential elections, has almost four and a half hundred toponyms, with emphasis on Sintra, with 17 plaques on four avenues, nine streets, two squares and two lanes, in different places or parishes. , followed by Loures, with 16, including 12 streets, two squares and a square.
The “fearless general”, as he became known, defeated at the polls, in a fraudulent electoral process, before being murdered by the PIDE (International and State Defense Police), is also distinguished in Seixal (Setúbal), with an avenue, 10 streets and square, and in Almada, with two avenues, four streets, sidewalk, square, square and alley, and in Vila Franca de Xira with eight streets and square.
Humberto Delgado was born in a village in Torres Novas (Santarém), a municipality with four streets, one in the parish of Brogueira, and four squares named after him, including the “memorial house” in which he was born, in Boquilobo, and eight other place names in Alenquer (Lisbon) and Guimarães, seven in Alcácer do Sal, Grândola and Moita (Setúbal), Mafra and Odivelas (Lisbon), Santo Tirso and Torres Vedras, and six in Évora, Montijo and Santiago do Cacém (Setúbal), Penafiel (Porto) and Vila Nova de Famalicão (Braga).
Arraiolos (Évora), Beja, Cascais, Oeiras, Palmela (Setúbal), Cartaxo and Santarém have five arteries named after the general, but many other municipalities, from north to south and islands, vary between one and four toponyms, from street and alley in Viana do Castelo, two streets and a square in Serpa or a street and neighborhood in Cuba (Beja), an avenue, two streets and a square in Silves (Faro) or two roads in Horta, on the Azorean island of Faial.
The Portuguese diplomat from Carregal do Sal
The Portuguese consul in France, a native of the Viseu district, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, granted visas to Jews who were fleeing the Nazi German army in the Second World War, without Salazar. Aristides de Sousa Mendes records, in addition to his homeland, 63 toponyms in the districts of Aveiro, Beja, Braga and Bragança. Coimbra, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisbon, Porto, Santarém, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real.
Sousa Mendes was born in Cabanas de Viriato, a parish in the municipality of Carregal do Sal, where he had an avenue named after him, and stood out in Loures, with four streets and a square, in Cascais, with an avenue and three streets, in Odivelas, with two avenues and two streets, and two toponyms in Fafe, Faro, Lousã, Guimarães, Santarém and Sintra, in addition to an artery in many other municipalities.
