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ABSTRACT This article seeks to analyze how socio-political changes in the Iberian Peninsula, in the post-dictatorial period affected the course of youth cultures and the penetration of cosmopolitanism. Through a documentary analysis, we examined the diferences/similarities among youth cultures with a focus on the emergence of the Portuguese (post-punk) movement in the late 1970s, the 1980s boom of Bairro Alto and the night in Lisbon, and the 1980s musical and cultural scene of La Movida in Spain. This research promotes knowledge outside the Anglo-American worldview, as a starting point for an analysis of the -unknown dynamics of the Iberian Peninsula.