In the framework of the Joint Cultural Programme, the exhibition Portugal-Spain: 50 years of democracy was inaugurated on 1 April in the presence of the State Secretaries for Culture, Alberto Santos, and Jordi Marti Grau. The exhibition will be held until 29 June at the Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica in Salamanca and is curated by historian Manuel Loff.
The round table Celebrating Democracy took place on that day. Reflections on 50 years of change in Greece, Spain and Portugal, with the participation of Maria Inácia Rezola (Portugal), historian and commissioner for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of 25 April; Syrago Tsiara (Greece), art curator, director of the Pinacoteca de Grecia and commissioner of Democracia, the first major exhibition on artistic responses to struggles against dictatorships and the achievement of democracies in Greece, Spain and Portugal, and Carmina Gustrán Loscos (Spain), historian and commissioner for the celebration of 50 years of Spain in freedom.
The table was moderated by Elena Martínez Barahona, professor of political science at the University of Salamanca, in the framework of the Josefina Cuesta Chair of Democratic Memory.
The conversation was framed in the exhibition 50 years of democracy, co-organized by the commissioner for the celebration of 50 years on 25 April, the commissioner for the celebration of 50 years of freedom in Spain and the Ministry of Culture, which can be visited until 29 June.