Sunday, June 22, 2008

Discoveries Monument

In Portuguese they call it the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, or the Monument to the Discoveries. It was build in Lisbon in 1960. Some of the better known people of the Age of Discoveries are Henry the Navigator (Henrique o Navegador), Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães), and Luís Vaz de Camões.
Portugal was the country of the discoveries--save for letting Columbus slip thru their fingers. But then they got greedy and it all got away from them.
Link to the key of who's who on the Monument.

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