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Padrão dos Descobrimentos (pron
Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
. ; lit. Monument to the Discoveries) is a monument that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery
Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was a period in human history starting in the 15th Century and continuing into the 17th Century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and particular trade goods....
 of the 15th and 16th centuries. It is located on the estuary of the Tagus
Tagus

The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon....
 river in the Belém parish of Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
, where ships departed to their often unknown destinations.

The monument consists of a 52 metre-high slab of concrete, carved into the shape of the prow of a ship.






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Padrão dos Descobrimentos (pron
Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
. ; lit. Monument to the Discoveries) is a monument that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery
Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was a period in human history starting in the 15th Century and continuing into the 17th Century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and particular trade goods....
 of the 15th and 16th centuries. It is located on the estuary of the Tagus
Tagus

The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon....
 river in the Belém parish of Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
, where ships departed to their often unknown destinations.

The monument consists of a 52 metre-high slab of concrete, carved into the shape of the prow of a ship. The side that faces away from the river features a carved sword stretching the full height of the monument. It was conceived by Portuguese artists, architect Cottinelli Telmo and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida as a temporary beacon of the Portuguese World Fair in 1940. The Monument to the Discoveries represents a romantic idealisation of the Portuguese past that was typical during the regime of dictator Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar

Ant?nio de Oliveira Salazar, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of the Tower and Sword, Order of St. James of the Sword, pronunciation....
.

The monument in detail

The original monument was built with perishable materials, but it was rebuilt in concrete in 1960, in time for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator

The Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu, Pronunciation ), in Sagres, Portugal) was an infante of the Portugal House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations....
, the sponsor of the Portuguese Discoveries. He is the figure at the tip of the monument, looking out over the river. Behind Henry, on both sides of the monument, are statues of other great people of that era, including explorers, cartographers, artists, scientists and missionaries.

The 33 featured Portuguese personalities are:

  • Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra
    Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra

    The Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra Order of the Garter , was a Portugal infante of the House of Aviz, son of List of Portuguese monarchs John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt....
     (son of King John I of Portugal
    John I of Portugal

    John I, Portuguese language: Jo?o, , called the Good or of Happy Memory, was the tenth List of Portuguese monarchs and the first to use the title Lord of Ceuta....
    )
  • Queen Philippa of Lancaster
    Philippa of Lancaster

    Philippa of Lancaster, Order of the Garter was List of Portuguese royal consorts. Her marriage with King John I of Portugal secured the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which is still in force, and also produced several famous princes and princesses of Portugal that became known as the "Illustrious Generation"....
  • Fernão Mendes Pinto
    Fernão Mendes Pinto

    Fern?o Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese people explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an Autobiography work whose validity is nearly impossible to assess....
     (writer)
  • Friar Gonçalo de Carvalho
  • Friar Henrique Carvalho
  • Luís de Camões
    Luís de Camões

    Lu?s Vaz de Cam?es Family is considered Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, and Dante Alighieri....
     (renaissance
    Renaissance

    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
     poet who celebrated the navigations in the epic Lusiads)
  • Nuno Gonçalves
    Nuno Gonçalves

    Nuno Gon?alves was a 15th century Portugal artist credited for the painting of the paineis de S?o Vicente de Fora . The panels depict the main elements of Portuguese society in the 15th century: clergy, nobility and common person....
     (painter)
  • Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler)
  • Pêro da Covilhã
    Pêro da Covilhã

    Pedro or P?ro da Covilh? was a Portugal diplomat and explorer.He was a native of Covilh? in Beira, Portugal. In his early life he had gone to Crown of Castile and entered the service of Alphonso, Duke of Seville....
     (traveller)
  • Jácome de Maiorca
    Jehuda Cresques

    Jehuda Cresques , also known as Jafud? Cresques, Jaume Riba, and Cresques lo Jeheu was a Catalonia Cartography, and probably the man who coordinated the discoveries of the Portugal naval school at Sagres in the early 15th century....
     (cosmographer)
  • Pedro Escobar
    Pedro Escobar

    Pedro Escobar, also known as P?ro Escobar, was a 15th century Portugal explorer who discovered S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe together with Jo?o de Santar?m....
     (navigator)
  • Pedro Nunes
    Pedro Nunes

    Pedro Nunes , was a Portugal mathematics, cosmographer, and professor, born from a New Christian family.Nunes, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, is best known for his contributions in the technical field of navigation, which was crucial to the Portuguese Portugal in the period of discoveries....
     (mathematician)
  • Pêro de Alenquer
    Pêro de Alenquer

    P?ro de Alenquer Portugal explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. Latter wrote a description of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India....
     (navigator)
  • Gil Eanes
    Gil Eanes

    Gil Eanes , Pronunciation. , was a 15th century Portugal navigator and exploration.Very little was known of him. Eanes was in the service of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator....
     (navigator)
  • João Gonçalves Zarco
    João Gonçalves Zarco

    Jo?o Gon?alves Zarco, later Jo?o Gon?alves da C?mara de Lobos or simply Jo?o Gon?alves da C?mara was a Portugal navigator and explorer who organized the peopling and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was designed 1st captain of Funchal by Prince Henry the Navigator....
     (navigator)
  • Infante Fernando, the Saint Prince
    Fernando, the Saint Prince

    The Infante Fernando - , commonly known as the Saint Prince was an Infante of Portugal of the House of Aviz. Fernando was the sixth son of List of Portuguese monarchs John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster....
     (son of King John I of Portugal)
  • Henry the Navigator
    Henry the Navigator

    The Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu, Pronunciation ), in Sagres, Portugal) was an infante of the Portugal House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations....
     (sponsor of the Age of Discovery
    Age of Discovery

    The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was a period in human history starting in the 15th Century and continuing into the 17th Century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and particular trade goods....
    )
  • Afonso V of Portugal
    Afonso V of Portugal

    Afonso V , or Affonso , the African , was the 12th Algarve#History .He was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Infanta Leonor of Aragon ....
  • Vasco da Gama
    Vasco da Gama

    D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portugal in the Age of Discovery, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India....
     (discoverer of the sea route to India)
  • Afonso Baldaia (navigator)
  • Pedro Álvares Cabral
    Pedro Álvares Cabral

    Pedro ?lvares Cabral was a Portugal navigator and List of explorers. Cabral is generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil .Cabral is thought to have been born in Belmonte , in the Beira Baixa province of Portugal....
     (discoverer of Brazil)
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese people List of maritime explorers who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia....
     (first to circumnavigate the globe)
  • Nicolau Coelho
    Nicolau Coelho

    Nicolau Coelho Portugal explorer who accompanied Pedro ?lvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, being one of the captains of the fleet....
     (navigator)
  • Gaspar Corte-Real
    Gaspar Corte-Real

    Gaspar Corte-Real was a Portugal Exploration.He was the youngest of three sons of Jo?o Vaz Corte-Real, also an explorer, and had accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America....
     (navigator)
  • Martim Afonso de Sousa
    Martim Afonso de Sousa

    Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portugal fidalgo and List of explorers.Born in Vila Vi?osa, he was commander of the first Portuguese expedition into mainland Brazil....
     (navigator)
  • João de Barros
    João de Barros

    Jo?o de Barros , called the Portugal Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his D?cadas da ?sia , a history of the Portuguese in India and Asia....
     (writer)
  • Estêvão da Gama
    Estêvão da Gama

    Est?v?o da Gama was the Portugal governor of Portuguese Gold Coast and Portuguese India . He was the second son of Vasco da Gama and brother of Crist?v?o da Gama, and named after his paternal grandfather Est?v?o da Gama ....
     (sea captain)
  • Bartolomeu Dias
    Bartolomeu Dias

    Bartolomeu Dias , a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portugal List of explorers who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so....
     (first to cross over the Cape of Good Hope
    Cape of Good Hope

    The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
    )
  • Diogo Cão
    Diogo Cão

    Diogo C?o was a Portugal exploration and one of the most remarkable navigators of the golden age of the discoveries, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s.He is well known in Angola, because of him the country was a portuguese colony & has close ties with Portugal ....
     (first to arrive to the Congo river
    Congo River

    The Congo River is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km makes it the second longest in Africa ....
    )
  • António Abreu (navigator)
  • Afonso de Albuquerque
    Afonso de Albuquerque

    Dom Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portugal fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese empire in the Indian ocean....
     (second viceroy of Portuguese India
    Portuguese India

    Portuguese India was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India's western coast, including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman and Daman and Diu, and the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inl...
    )
  • Saint Francis Xavier (missionary)
  • Cristóvão da Gama
    Cristovão da Gama

    Crist?v?o da Gama was a Portugal soldier, who led a Portuguese army on a crusade in Ethiopia against the Muslim army of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi ....
     (captain)


A small space within the monument hosts a multimedia exhibition on the history of Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
. The top of the monument (reached via an elevator) offers wonderful views of the Tagus
Tagus

The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon....
 river, the Belém neighbourhood and its many attractions, including the Belém Tower
Belém Tower

Bel?m Tower is a fortified tower located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal.It was built in the early 16th century in the Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate Vasco da Gama's expedition....
 and the Jerónimos Monastery
Jerónimos Monastery

See also Monasterio de Jer?nimos, Madrid, SpainThe Hieronymites Monastery is located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal....
, which date from the Age of Discovery.

The pavement in front of the monument features a mosaic decoration showing a world map with the routes of various Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 explorers and a wind rose
Wind rose

A wind rose is a graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location....
. The mosaic was a gift from South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
 in 1960.

See also

  • Age of Discovery
    Age of Discovery

    The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was a period in human history starting in the 15th Century and continuing into the 17th Century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and particular trade goods....
  • Jerónimos Monastery
    Jerónimos Monastery

    See also Monasterio de Jer?nimos, Madrid, SpainThe Hieronymites Monastery is located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal....
  • Belém Tower
    Belém Tower

    Bel?m Tower is a fortified tower located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal.It was built in the early 16th century in the Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate Vasco da Gama's expedition....
  • Belém parish
  • Padrão
    Padrão

    A Padr?o was a large stone cross inscribed with the Coat of arms of Portugal of Portugal that was placed as part of a land claim by numerous List of Portuguese people List of explorers during the Portugal in the Age of Discovery Age of Discovery....


Literature

  • Hancock, Matthew. The Rough Guide to Lisbon, Rough Guides Ltd, London, 2003. ISBN 1-85-828906-8
  • Weimer, Alois & Weimer-Langer, Britta. Portugal, GeoCenter International Ltd., Basingstoke, UK, 2000. ISBN 3-82-976110-4