Eight hundred years later, a man also a soldier, a warrior of modern times, appealed calmly but firmly to battle in these terms: "Gentlemen, as you all know, there are various forms of state. The social state, the corporate state and the state we have reached. Yet in this solemn night, we end up with the state we have reached! So anyone who wants to come with me, come to Lisbon and ended up with this. Whoever is voluntary exist and form a line. Who does not want to leave, stay here! "And so they left this mystic city, a group of 250 men with an armored column headed by Salgueiro Maia that surrounded the courtyard of the Belem Palace and ended the dictatorship that ruled for almost 40 years Portugal. By way of honoring him the people, erected a monument at the exact place where the military command left taking with them winds of change from this warrior metropolis stage of great social and territorial upheaval. But, not only of war and man lives Santarem it is also the guardian of architectural relics that ennobles it even more. The city is the capital of the Gothic style; although many of the monuments are in poor condition you can visit one of its greatest exponents, the Church of St. Augustine of Grace. The seminar in the very center of the town, is another of the monument of a poor country, several generations of young men acceded to free education with the promise of a life devoted to religion. Santarem is thus a city full of ghosts, warriors and exploits that have indelibly wrote the history of our country.




