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The Historian · Rui · Lisbon

Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Belém · Monument · $

Read this as propaganda, not history. Salazar rebuilt it in 1960 to sell an empire he was already fighting wars to keep.

The riverside monument to the Age of Discovery — a stone caravel prow of navigators, rebuilt in 1960 by the dictatorship.

— Rui, The Historian
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