Adelino Amaro da Costa nasceu em Algés em 18 de Abril de 1943. Foi dirigente da Acção Católica e da Juventude Escolar Católica. Licenciou-se em Engenharia Civil no Instituto Superior Técnico.

Em Julho de 1974 foi um dos fundadores do CDS-Partido do Centro Democrático Social, de que foi o primeiro Secretário-Geral e o primeiro Vice-Presidente. Foi eleito Deputado à Assembleia Constituinte, à Assembleia da República e lider do Grupo Parlamentar do CDS. Em 1975, idealizou e fundou o IDL Instituto Democracia e Liberdade.

Aos 36 anos tomou posse como Ministro da Defesa Nacional, o primeiro civil neste cargo após o 25 de Abril de 1974.

Na noite de 4 de Dezembro de 1980, em viagem para um comicio eleitoral, despenhou-se o avião em que seguia com Manuela Vaz Pires Amaro da Costa com quem tinha casado no ano anterior, o Primeiro-Ministro Francisco Sá Carneiro e Snu Abecassis, António Patricio Gouveia e os pilotos-Jorge Albuquerque e Alfredo de Sousa. Em 1995 o Parlamento apurou que a queda do avião em Camarate foi provocada por um atentado.

Neste largo, com o seu nome, em frente ao partido que fundou, inscrevem-se algumas frases que refletem o espirito e visão, do País e do Mundo, de um grande português.

Instituto Amara de Casta

The plaque is dedicated to the Portuguese politician Adelino Amaro da Costa, founder of the Social Democratic Party (CDS) who was also Portugal’s Minister of Defense. Da Costa was killed in a light plane crash that also killed the Prime Minister of Portugal, a crash that was probably the result of a bomb on the plane.

The sign is on the party house that was photographed that day Click for a larger image

As indicated on the sign on the curb in the square, there is a sentence that reflects Da Costa’s path
SOMOS CONTRA A EXPLORAÇÃO DO HOMEM PELO HOMEM E TAMBÉ CONTRA A EXPLORAÇÃO DO HOMEM PELO ESTADO
[translating]
We are against the exploitation of a person by a person and also against the exploitation of a person by the state
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Translation of the text on the sign:
Adelino Amaro da Costa was born in Algés on April 18, 1943. He was a leader of Catholic Action and Catholic School Youth. He graduated in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico.

In July 1974 he was one of the founders of the CDS-Partido do Centro Democrático Social, of which he was the first Secretary-General and the first Vice-President. He was elected Deputy to the Constituent Assembly, to the Assembly of the Republic and leader of the CDS Parliamentary Group. In 1975, he idealized and founded the IDL Instituto Democracia e Liberdade.

At the age of 36, he took office as Minister of National Defense, the first civilian in this position after April 25, 1974.

On the night of December 4, 1980, while traveling to an election rally, the plane on which Manuela Vaz Pires Amaro da Costa was traveling, whom she had married the previous year, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro and Snu Abecassis, crashed. António Patricio Gouveia and the pilots-Jorge Albuquerque and Alfredo de Sousa. In 1995 Parliament found that the plane crash in Camarate was caused by an attack.

In this square, with his name, in front of the party he founded, some phrases are inscribed that reflect the spirit and vision, of the Country and the World, of a great Portuguese.

Instituto Amara de Casta