
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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