PADRÃO DOS DESCOBRIMENTOS (MONUMENT TO THE DISCOVERIES)

The Monument to the Discoveries was first erected in 1940, as a temporary structure integrated into the Portuguese World Exhibition. Built with perishable materials, it had a lightweight structure of iron and cement, with the sculptural composition molded in “estafe” (a mixture of various kinds of plaster and tow, consolidated by a wooden or iron framework). In 1960, on the occasion of the 500th…

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