Monument to the Discoveries
Visit to the Monument of the Discoveries
The Monument of the Discoveries is one of Lisbon's ex-libris. It was built for the first time in 1940 - provisionally, within the scope of the Portuguese World Exhibition. In 1960, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Monument of the Discoveries was rebuilt.
A stylized caravel seems to be setting out to sea, with Henry the Navigator in its prow. On the two lateral ramps ascending to the symbolic figure of the Prince are some of the major figures of the Portuguese overseas expansion and cultural names from the age of the Discoveries, 32 in total, all portrayed with symbols that allude to their identity: navigators, cartographers, warriors, colonizers, missionaries, chroniclers and artists.
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