Alzira Costa

Alzira de Barros de Abreu Costa (20 April 1875 – 21 February 1970) was the wife of Portuguese politician Afonso Costa.

Biography Alzira de Barros de Abreu was born in 1875, in Oliveira do Hospital, in Coimbra, the daughter of Albano Mendes de Abreu, a medical doctor, and his wife, Emília de Barros Coelho de Campos. She was the sister of the writer and politician José de Barros Mendes de Abreu, who was born on 20 July 1878.

She was also the sister of António de Barros Mendes de Abreu (1880–1960), a lawyer, and the aunt of the dancer and choreographer Margarida de Abreu (1915–2006) and Maria Helena von Hoffmann de Abreu (1920–2020), a piano teacher and a pioneer of yoga in Portugal, who married João de Freitas Branco, the son of the composer Luís de Freitas Branco.

She married Afonso Costa in the New Cathedral of Coimbra, on 15 September 1892.

She died at the age of 94, in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Lisbon.