Leopoldo de Almeida

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Erisava Staff Jul 26

Padrão dos Descobrimentos by Leopoldo de Almeida, 1960

Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém · wikidata.org

Jean-Christophe BENOIST · CC BY 4.0

According to Wikipedia it stands on the riverbank in Lisbon where the ships actually set off for India and beyond, and it was put up to celebrate that whole age of sailing out to explore and trade — or to conquer, depending on who's telling it.