The Santa Cruz Cemetery is a quiet, slightly overgrown Catholic burial ground that looks like any other across the Lusophone world — until you remember what happened here in 1991. The graves of those killed in the massacre are scattered through the cemetery; many were dug days after the shooting by families who had to identify their dead from a hospital morgue.
There is no formal memorial inside, only the place itself. The cemetery sits east of the centre, about a kilometre south of the seafront. Visit in the morning when the light is gentler; the gates are open during daylight hours.