195 Things: Prince Henry the Navigator statue
He sits, in the robes and hat common to nobility of his time, faced propped on hand, looking out to sea in the sense that, if you followed the line of his gaze, you’d eventually arrive at salt water. Mostly, though, Prince Henry the Navigator, born in 1394 and dead in 1460, gazes out on the traffic which passes up and down Pleasant Street. heraldnews.com/news/195things
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The Monument to the Discoveries along the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal
Monument to the Discoveries Lisbon Portugal
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Porto Riverfront along Douro River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, LVBO Travel Videos
Porto or Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. In this video from the steps of the Palácio da Bolsa, which is the historic Stock Exchange Palace, you can see the statue of Prince Henry the Navigator and more of the city.
The video then moves along the Porto waterfront along the Banks of the River Douro. The Porto historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mappa Mundi - Monument to the Discoveries (Padrão dos Descobrimentos)
A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi) is any medieval European map of the world. Such maps range in size and complexity from simple schematic maps 25 millimetres (1 inch) or less across to elaborate wall maps, the largest of which was 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in diameter. The term derives from the Medieval Latin words mappa (cloth or chart) and mundi (of the world).
Approximately 1,100 mappae mundi are known to have survived from the Middle Ages. Of these some 900 are found illustrating manuscripts and the remainder exist as stand-alone documents.
Source: Wikipedia
Portuguese Discoveries
The Portuguese Role in Exploring and Mapping the New World
Portugal, the western-most European country, was one of the primary players in the European Age of Discovery and Exploration. Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal took the principal role during most of the fifteenth century in searching for a route to Asia by sailing south around Africa. In the process, the Portuguese accumulated a wealth of knowledge about navigation and the geography of the Atlantic Ocean.
In the last decade of the fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus set out on a westerly course across the Atlantic Ocean searching for an alternative route to the Indies but inadvertently discovered a new continent. Although neither Portuguese-born nor sponsored, Columbus was Portuguese trained. He went to Lisbon in 1476 and remained there for several years, seeking the support of the Portuguese king and gathering nautical and geographic intelligence from the returning sailors. He married a Portuguese woman; obtained navigation charts and related information from his father-in-law, Bartholomew Perestrelo, who was the governor of the island of Porto Santo in Madeira; and was employed by João II as a navigator.
After Columbus voyages to the New World, the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English began the active exploration and exploitation of the newly discovered land in the Americas. Portuguese sailors continued to make important discoveries in this new arena as well.
View from top of Monument to the Discoveries Lisbon Portugal
Jeronimos Monastery and Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon
Jeronimos Monastery and Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon
Monument to the Discoveries / Padrão dos Descobrimentos / Μνημείο των Ανακαλύψεων
Padrão dos Descobrimentos / Monument to the Discoveries / Μνημείο των Ανακαλύψεων
Padrão dos Descobrimentos is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery (or Age of Exploration) during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Monument to the discoveries Lisbon Portugal
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Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon
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Lisbon's Cristo Rei statue from Tejo (Tegus) River
Lovely Lisbon, Portugal's capital and largest city with a metropolitan population of 1.25 million, is built on hills above the banks of the Tejo River. Called Lisboa by its residents, this name was apparently derived from the Phoenician term Allis Ubbo, or calm port. Today the city is still an important European port, with one of the world's largest natural harbors.
Lisbon was inhabited by the Romans, and the Moors ruled between the eighth and twelfth centuries. In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the so-called Age of Discovery, Portuguese mariners opened up India, Indonesia, China, Japan and Brazil to trade; and Portugal became the richest country in Europe. However, Lisbon's Great Earthquake and accompanying tsunami of 1755 caused massive damage to the city, and by 1560 Portugal's power had finally reached its zenith.
King Dom Manuel I, who ruled from 1495 to 1521, lent his name to a new late-Gothic style of architecture. The two best surviving examples of Manueline architecture are the Torre de Belem and the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos. Both of these monuments are in the must-see waterfront suburb of Belem some 6 km (3.5 miles) west of the city center. It was from Belem that Vasco da Gama sailed to India. Today the tomb of the great seafarer lies within the monastery. Originally built in the middle of the Tejo between 1515 and 1520, the Torre de Belem fortress became joined to the river's right bank after the Tejo changed course following the Great Earthquake. Belem's 52-meter-high (170-foot-high) riverside Monument to the Discoveries was built in 1960 to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) who organized and financed the first of Portugal's great sea explorations.
The 25th of April Bridge, 2.4 km (1.5 miles) long and with one kilometer (3,280 feet) between its towers, is one of the world's longest suspension bridges. It was constructed in 1966 by the firm which built San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The 16-km-long (10-mile-long) Vasco da Gama Bridge, Europe's second longest, also spans the Tejo at Lisbon. In 1959 the gigantic 100-meter-high (330-foot-high) Cristo Rei statue was buillt across the river overlooking Lisbon, imitating the Rio de Janeiro original.
Lisbon's oldest quarter, the Alfama, dates from the eleventh century when the Moors ruled and is capped by the Castelo de Sao Jorge, the former royal residence. Other districts of interest to tourists are the Baixa, Chiado and Bairro Alto. Once the heart of medieval Lisbon, the Baixa is now a busy commercial center. At one time the center of Lisbon's intellectual life, a 1988 fire destroyed the core of the Chiado. The Bairro Alto sprang to life when King Dom Manuel I shifted his residence from the Castelo to the waterfront early in the sixteenth century. Today it is a district of antiquarian bookstores by day and of a large number of fado houses, bars and clubs by night.
A trip to Lisbon would not be complete without a visit to the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, one of the world's great institutions, which exhibits works of art from 2,500 B. C. to the early twentieth century. Gulbenkian, a multi-millionaire, resided in Lisbon from 1942 until his death in 1955. Housed in a wonderful modern building, this museum is best reached by taxi.
Hilly Sintra, 24 km (15 miles) northwest of Lisbon, makes for a fascinating day trip. A summer resort for Portuguese royalty, Sintra boasts the Palacio Nacional where royals dwelled for 500 years until 1910. Although this is Portugal's oldest surviving royal palace, dating back to Moorish times, much of what can be seen and toured today is from the fifteenth century. On the other hand, Sintra's Palacio de Pena has been called a wedding cake of a palace. Built in the 1840s, this hilltop fantasy is a bizarre riot of domes and towers that survives as a museum portrayed in the very condition in which it was left when the royal family fled the country in 1910.
Another excellent day trip is to the nearby medieval walled town of Obidos, founded in 308 B. C. During a four-hour coach tour from downtown Lisbon, tourists can visit the seventeenth-century parish church and enjoy a stroll while window shopping along Obidos' extremely picturesque and nearly-carless main street. The castle above the town has been converted into a hotel.
Few cities are as eccentric and as alluring as lovely Lisbon, which is best visited during its warm and dry summer season from May to September.
Note: Visible in this video clip taken 22 May 2008 are the Cristo Rei (Christ the King) statue and a portion of the 25th of April Bridge.
MONUMENT OF THE DISCOVERIES LISBON PORTUGAL
Portugal - Monument to Explorers - Travel - Jim Rogers World Adventure
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Porto - Portugal - Praça do Infante D. Henrique
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Discoveries Monument, Lisbon
My view of the monument from the Metro