Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Monument to the Discoveries, Belém	Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém	Monument to the Discoveries, 54m	Padrão dos Descobrimentos erected for the 500th anniversary of death of Prince Henry the Navigator
Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém	Prince Henry the Navigator in the lead	Monument overlooking the Tagus River	Prince Henry with Prince Fernando, son of King João I
Key figures in the history of Portugals exploration are depicted on either side of the monument following Prince Henry	Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém	Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon	Prince Pedro and Queen Filipa watch the discoverers set off
Navigators João Gonçalves Zarco, Gil Eanes, Pêro de Alenquer, and Pêro de Escobar, mathematician Pedro Nunes	Cosmographer Jácome de Maiorca, traveller Pero da Covilhã	Chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara and painter Nuno Gonçalves	Poet Luiz Vaz de Camões
Friars Henrique Carvalho and Gonçalo de Carvalho	Writer Fernão Mendes Pinto, Queen Filipa de Lencastre (mother of Prince Henry), Prince Pedro (brother of Prince Henry)	Portuguese flags on the Monument to the Discoveries	West side of the Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon
Documents held by Poet Luiz Vaz de Camões	500th Anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator 1460-1960	To Prince Henry and the Portuguese Who Discovered the Lanes of the Sea	East side of the Monument to the Discoveries
King Afonso V, Vasco da Gama, followed by the navigators Pedro Alvarez Cabral and Afonso Baldaia	Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) with navigators Nicolau Coelho, Gaspar Corte Real and Martim Afonso de Sousa	Writer João de Barros behind the navigators	Captain Estevão Da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias carrying the markers he left on the coast of Africa, and Diogo Cão
Governor Afondo de Albuquerque, Missionary Francisco Xavier and Capt Cristovão Da Gama	Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém	View of Praça do Império and Mosteiro dos Jerónimos from the Monument to the Discoveries, Belém	View of Praça do Império and Mosteiro dos Jerónimos from the Monument to the Discoveries, Belém
Suburban Lisbon from the top of the Monument to the Discoveries	LisbonMay06 849.jpg	LisbonMay06 850.jpg	2 km wide Rio Tagus and the Tagus Brige, opened in 1966
Torre de Belém from the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém	LisbonMay06 853.jpg	LisbonMay06 866.jpg	50m diameter Wind Rose on the square in front of the Monument of the Discoveries
The center of the Wind Rose contains a map of the world made of different types of marble	Wind Rose, Padrão dos Descobrimentos	The Wind Rose was donated by the Republic of South Africa	Marble map of the earth, Lisbon
The map, "planisphere", is 14m across	Looking down the side of the monument	Belém map - Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa, Indian Ocean	Belém map - Africa
Belém map - South America	Belém map - Europe	Belém map - Britain, Ireland, Brittany	Belém map - detail
Belém map - detail	Belém map - North America	Belém map - Southeastern North America	Belém map - The Americas
Belém map - detail	Belém map - Southeast Asia, China, Japan	Monument to the Discoveries	Infante Henrique - Prince Henry
Prince Henry overlooking a string of future sailors	Prince Henry and the Rio Tagus Bridge, Lisbon	Side view of the Monument to the Discoveries	Lisbon Aug20 012.jpg
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