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Raimundo, F. (2026). Salazar’s Difficult Heritage. Local Legacies and National Memory Politics in Portugal. Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. 91-108

F. A. Raimundo,  "Salazar’s Difficult Heritage. Local Legacies and National Memory Politics in Portugal", in Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, pp. 91-108, 2026

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	author = "Raimundo, F.",
	title = "Salazar’s Difficult Heritage. Local Legacies and National Memory Politics in Portugal",
	journal = "Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento",
	year = "2026",
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	pages = "91-108"
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Salazar’s Difficult Heritage. Local Legacies and National Memory Politics in Portugal
T2  - Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento
AU  - Raimundo, F.
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AB  - This article examines the decades-long dispute over creating a museological space in San-
ta Comba Dão, the birthplace and burial site of António de Oliveira Salazar, the founder
of Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship (1933-1974). Though geographically peripheral,
the site has long been central to national debates over the dictatorship’s memory. Drawing
on literature on authoritarian legacies and difficult heritage, the article shows how local
development goals collided with national resistance and how prolonged state inaction
shaped outcomes as much as direct intervention. Using oral testimonies, press materials
and parliamentary records, it traces the reframing of the project from a potential homage
to an interpretative center inspired by agonistic memory. The case reveals how disputes
over a seemingly local site became a lens for national struggles about democratic identity
and how the governance of places linked to twentieth-century dictatorships often depends
on the politics of absence and symbolic contestation.
ER  -