The Luís de Camões Square gets it's name from the immortal Portuguese poet, and is composed of a bronze figure in the center of a square with sidewalks paved in the Portuguese style.With the statue of Luís de Camões placed in the center, this square is more than just a beautiful and discreet urban square, it is also a sign of essential modern concepts of citizenship, embodied in the figure of a hero / poet in eternal exile who died very poor and alone.The author / sculptor of the monument, built between 1860 and 1867, was Vitor Bastos. It was inaugurated with great ceremony and public participation, in 1867, and one of the great urban large-scale sculptures to enliven a traditional space.The figure of the poet is executed in bronze and is six meters tall, it's characterized by a faceted parallelepiped, on whose edges are set others statues of the most prestigious names in classical national culture - Fernão Lopes, Zurara, Pedro Nunes and João de Barros, among others.