The Historian · Rui · Lisbon
Padrão dos Descobrimentos
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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