Padrão dos Descobrimentos
A beautiful stone monument, the “Discovering Pattern”
Was built for the Portuguese World Exhibition, which took place in 1940. Celebrated the nationalism, colonial expansionism and the Portuguese ultramarine action.
Was built for the Portuguese World Exhibition, which took place in 1940. Celebrated the nationalism, colonial expansionism and the Portuguese ultramarine action.
Built in stone, the tower was inaugurated in 1960. It brings you back to the time of the Portuguese marine expansion of the 16thcentury.
It rises like a stone caravel anchored in Tejo, the biggest river in the country.
It’s decorated by a serie of sculptures of important personalities of the time, like infante Henry.
In the exterior is, over a background of Portuguese
pavement (very typical of Lisbon), a rhumb card drawn
in colourful marble.
The “Padrão” is built in a unique monumental zone – Belém – which includes amazing monuments like the Tower of Belém and the Jeronimo’s Monastery.
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