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The monument was featured in Lisa Stansfield's music video for the single "Change", where she is seen walking up and down the eastern ledge. [ 4 ] The monument was featured on the 23rd season of the American reality competition series The Amazing Race , where the mappa mundi was used as part of a challenge where contestants had to measure the ...
Monument of the Discoveries; Monument to the Fallen of the Great War (Lisbon) Monument to the First Aerial Crossing of the South Atlantic (Alvalade) Monument to the First Aerial Crossing of the South Atlantic (Belém) Monument to the Restorers
The Camões Monument (Portuguese: Monumento a Camões) is a monument located in Luís de Camões Square in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal.The monument comprises a tall bronze statue of Luís de Camões, the national poet, on a lioz limestone pillar surrounded by eight smaller statues of leading figures of Portuguese culture and literature in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes ...
The Monument to the First Aerial Crossing of the South Atlantic [a] is a monument in Lisbon, Portugal, placed at Brasília Avenue, within the civil parish of Belém.It consists of a stainless steel replica sculpture of Fairey III biplane, that was used by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral during their 1922 South Atlantic aerial crossing.
Lisbon: 2017 i, ii, iv (cultural) The aqueduct, commissioned by King John V, was built between 1731 and 1799. The whole system stretches for 58 kilometres (36 mi) from Sintra area to Lisbon. At the time of construction, it contained the world's largest pointed arch with a height of 65 metres (213 ft) and a width of 29 metres (95 ft), it was ...
A Monument of the Discoveries of Portugal Padrão dos Descobrimentos was designed by Leopoldo de Almeida and Cottinelli Telmo. It was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt in 1960 to honor the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. [7]
Inauguration Day was moved from March 4 to Jan. 20 in the 1930s, in part, to hope for less rainy, snowy weather. (It's colder in January, of course, but the chance for rain or snow in the ...
Monument to the flight in Lisbon. Enthusiastic Portuguese and Brazilian public opinion about the flight led the Portuguese government to send another Fairey III seaplane to complete the journey. [1] The new plane, baptized Pátria, arrived at Fernando Noronha on 6 May.