I spent a day in Belém LISBON
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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The personalities sculpted on the monument are:
Eastern Side:
- Afonso de Albuquerque - Governor of Portuguese India
- Bartolomeu Dias - First to sail beyond the southern tip of Africa, past the Cape of Good Hope.
- Diogo Cão - First to reach the Congo
- Francis Xavier - Missionary in Asia
- Martim Afonso de Sousa - The first Royal Governor of Brazil
- Vasco da Gama - Discoverer of the sea route to India
- Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia - Explorer and one of the first settlers of the Azores
- Cristóvão da Gama - Explorer and Vasco da Gama's son
- Estêvão da Gama - Explorer and Vasco da Gama's son
- Gaspar Corte-real - Discoverer of Greenland
- Nicolau Coelho - Explorer who accompanied Vasco da Gama and Cabral
- António de Abreu - First to reach the Moluccas, Timor and possibly Australia.
- King Afonso V - King from 1438 to 1481
- Ferdinand Magellan - The first explorer to circumnavigate the Earth
- João de Barros - Writer and historian
- Pedro Álvares Cabral - Discoverer of Brazil
Western Side:
- Queen Filipa de Lencastre - Mother of Prince Henry the Navigator
- Frei Henrique de Coimbra - Accompanied Pedro Alvares Cabral, and celebrated the first Mass in Brazil.
- Infante D. Fernando - Prince Henry the Navigator's brother
- Jácome de Maiorca - Cartographer
- Nuno Gonçalves - Painter
- Pêro de Alenquer - Piloted the ship S. Gabriel, captained by Vasco da Gama, when traveling to India.
- Fernão Mendes Pinto - Writer
- Gil Eanes - The first to sail beyond Cape Bojador
- João Gonçalves Zarco - Settler of the Madeira islands
- Pedro Nunes - Mathematician
- Pêro de Escobar - Discoverer of São Tomé islands
- Frei Gonçalo de Carvalho - Missionary in India
- Gomes Eanes de Zurara - Chronicler
- Infante D. Pedro - Prince Henry the Navigator's brother
- Luís Vaz de Camões - Poet, author of "The Lusiads."
- Pêro da Covilhã - Diplomat in Asia