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The Curator · Beatriz · Lisbon

Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Belém · Monument · $

I show it as a 1960 monument, not neutral history. Read that way, it's the most revealing sculpture in Belém.

The 1960 riverside monument to the Age of Discoveries, a 52-metre prow crowded with sculpted figures.

— Beatriz, The Curator
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