Padrão dos Descobrimentos by Leopoldo de Almeida, 1960
Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém · wikidata.org
Jean-Christophe BENOIST · CC BY 4.0
Erisava: This is a monument to conquering, and I don't think we'd want to build it today.
What's your take?
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.
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You can just make out the people at the bottom — that's the scale of it.