Padrão dos Descobrimentos
The Padrão dos Descobrimentos ( German Monument to the Discoveries ) is in the district of Belém in Lisbon by the River Tagus . It was built in 1960 on the 500th anniversary of the death of Heinrich the Navigator by the Salazar regime . The monument has a height of 56 meters. Inside there is an auditorium for 101 people with a stage, and an exhibition hall on the second floor. From the second floor there is a staircase that leads to the lookout point.
Depicted people
The monument is intended to commemorate the Age of Discovery and shows 33 important personalities of the late Middle Ages in Portugal, who, however, did not all live at the same time:
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Prince Peter of Portugal
- Queen Philippa of Lancaster
- Fernão Mendes Pinto (writer)
- Gonçalo de Carvalho (Dominican who preached in India and the Congo)
- Henrique de Coimbra (Franciscan who preached in India and Africa)
- Luís de Camões (poet)
- Nuno Gonçalves (painter)
- Gomes Eanes de Azurara (historian)
- Pêro da Covilhã (researcher)
- Jehuda Cresques (cartographer)
- Pêro Escobar (sailor)
- Pedro Nunes (mathematician and astronomer)
- Pêro de Alenquer (Seafarer)
- Gil Eanes (sailor)
- João Gonçalves Zarco (seafarer)
- Prince Ferdinand of Avis
- King Alfonso V "the African"
- Vasco da Gama (discoverer of the sea route to India )
- Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (sailor)
- Pedro Álvares Cabral (seafarer, took possession of Brazil for Portugal)
- Ferdinand Magellan (Navigator)
- Nicolao Coelho (Navigator)
- Gaspar Corte-Real (seafarer)
- Martim Afonso de Sousa (colonizer and first governor of Brazil )
- João de Barros (historian)
- Estêvão da Gama (Navigator, Governor of India)
- Bartolomeu Diaz (discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope )
- Diogo Cão (seafarer)
- António Abreu (Navigator)
- Afonso de Albuquerque (sailor, military and politician)
- Saint Francis Xavier (Missionary)
- Cristóvão da Gama (military leader in Ethiopia )
Architecture and mosaic
There is a compass rose made of mosaic stones on the floor in front of the entrance. The compass rose has a diameter of 50 meters and was a gift from the Republic of South Africa . A world map in the center of the mosaic shows the routes of Portuguese explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries.
A paid elevator inside the monument takes you to the top, from where you have a view of the Tagus, the Ponte 25 de Abril , the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos and the Torre de Belém . There are inscriptions on the northern facade. Left: "AO INFANTE D. HENRIQVE E AOS PORTVGVESES QVE DESCOBRIRAM OS CAMINHOS DO MAR" ( In honor of Prince Heinrich and the Portuguese who discovered the sea routes ); Right: "NO V CENTENÁRIO DO INFANTE D. HENRIQVE 1460 - 1960" ( In the 5th century Prince Heinrichs 1460-1960 ).
See also
Web links
Coordinates: 38 ° 41 ′ 37 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ W.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Padrão dos Descobrimentos. Information brochure from the municipal culture company EGEAC (Portuguese; PDF; 2.8 MB).