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PADRÃO DOS DESCOBRIMENTOS

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Avenida de Brasília, Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
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2024
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Padrao of 56 m high with an ultra modern design and a world map in the center, enjoying a beautiful view of Lisbon.

Built in 1940 for theExposição do Mundo Português, it was knocked down by a cyclone in 1941 and rebuilt in 1960, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator, the main promoter of Portuguese maritime expansion. The monument, designed by architect Cottinelli Telmo and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida, is 56m high and takes the form of a boat. Around it are depicted 33 personalities from the 15th and 16th centuries, including Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Fernão Magalhães, Luís de Camões and D. Filipa de Lencastre. It was from here that Vasco da Gama set sail on July 8, 1497, to discover the sea route to India. Its name comes from the word padrões. A padrão (plural padrões) is a "stone pillar surmounted by a cross or the Portuguese coat of arms and bearing an inscription". They were used by Portuguese navigators to mark the places where they landed. The first to use them was Diogo Cão, on the orders of John II in 1482 at the mouth of the Zaire. From the top, it offers a 360º view of Lisbon, Belém and the Tagus, and inside, an auditorium and a temporary exhibition hall. On the ground floor, you'll also find a 50-meter-diameter compass rose made of small cobblestones, based on a design by architect Cristino da Silva, with a planisphere at its center, engraved with the dates and routes of the main Portuguese expeditions.

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chmommp
Visited in april 2016
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Ce n'est pas ce qu'il y a de plus beau à visiter à Lisbonne, mais on ne peut pas passer à Bélem sans lui jeter un coup d'oeil.
fute_929257
Visited in september 2016
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Je trouve ce monument plutôt sympa à voir. Si vous allez à Belem, n'hésitez pas y faire un tour pour contempler ce monument.
L'endroit est calme et agréable.
AVVoyageur
Visited in may 2016
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Vasco de Gama en tête, on ne reconnait pas forcément tous les autres personnages historiques du monument
mais le lieux vaut le détour ne serait-ce que pour le calme et la vue dégagée
Ti'Claude
Visited in june 2016
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Ce n'est pas ce qu'il y a de plus beau à visiter à Lisbonne, mais on ne peut pas passer à Bélem sans lui jeter un coup d'oeil.
aurelie2g
Visited in december 2015
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Ce monument offre une très belle vue sur Lisbonne, la Tour de Belem, qu'on ne voit de nul part ailleurs en hauteur, et le planisphère du parvis qu'il surmonte

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