Padrão dos Descobrimentos & Torre de Belém (Belém)

O Monumento aos Descobrimentos, popularmente conhecido como Padrão dos Descobrimentos, localiza-se em Belém, na cidade de Lisboa, em Portugal.
Bem destacado na margem do rio Tejo, foi construído em 1960 para assinalar os quinhentos anos da morte do Infante D. Henrique, o Navegador.

A Torre de Belém é um dos monumentos mais expressivos da cidade de Lisboa. Localiza-se na margem direita do rio Tejo, onde existiu outrora a praia de Belém. Inicialmente cercada pelas águas em todo o seu perímetro, progressivamente foi envolvida pela praia, até se incorporar hoje à terra firme.
Classificada como Património Mundial pela UNESCO, em 7 de Julho de 2007 foi eleita como uma das Sete maravilhas de Portugal.

Padrão dos Descobrimentos (pron. IPA: [pɐ'dɾɐ̃ũ duʃ dɨʃkubɾi'mẽtuʃ]; lit. Monument to the Discoveries) is a monument that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery of the 15th and 16th centuries. It is located on the estuary of the Tagus river in the Belém parish of Lisbon, Portugal, where ships departed to their often unknown destinations.
The monument consists of a 52 metre-high slab of concrete, carved into the shape of the prow of a ship. The side that faces away from the river features a carved sword stretching the full height of the monument. It was conceived by Portuguese artists, architecht Cottinelli Telmo and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida as a temporary beacon of the Portuguese World Fair in 1940. The Monument to the Discoveries represents a romantic idealisation of the Portuguese past that was typical during the regime of dictator Salazar.
The original monument had been built with perishable materials, but it was rebuilt in concrete in 1960, in time for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator, the sponsor of the Portuguese Discoveries. He is the figure at the tip of the monument, looking out over the river. Behind Henry, on both sides of the monument, are statues of other great people of that era, including explorers, cartographers, artists, scientists and missionaries.

Belém Tower (in Portuguese Torre de Belém, pron. IPA: ['toɾ(ɨ) dɨ bɨ'lɐ̃ĩ]) is a fortified tower located in the Belém district of Lisbon, Portugal.
It was built in the early 16th century in the Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate Vasco da Gama's expedition. This defensive, yet elegant construction has become one of the symbols of the city, a memorial to the Portuguese power during the Age of the Great Discoveries. In 1983 it was classified, together with the nearby Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Belém Tower was built both as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon and as part of a defence system of the entrance of the Tagus river and the Jerónimos Monastery, which was necessary to protect Lisbon. The system was initiated by King John II (1455-1495), who built the Fortress of Cascais and the Fortress of São Sebastião of Caparica. The banks of Belém were protected by a ship, the Grande Nau, replaced by the Tower of Belém during the last five years of the reign of King Manuel I.
The Tower was constructed between 1515 and 1521 by military architect Francisco de Arruda, who had already built several fortresses in Portuguese possessions in Morocco. The influence of the Moorish decorative art is manifest in delicate decorations of the arched windows and balconies and in the ribbed cupolas of the watch towers. Diogo de Boitaca, first architect of the nearby Monastery of the Jerónimos, probably also participated in decorating the building. The machicolation and the battlements are decorated with the rich sculptural ornamentations of the Manueline style.
Originally, the Tower stood on a little island on the right side of the Tagus, surrounded by water. Opposite the beach at Restelo, with the progressive southward creeping of the shore over the years, it is now practically moored to the bank itself. It was dedicated to the patron saint of Lisbon, St Vincent.
In 1580, when Lisbon was invaded by Spanish troops in the course of a struggle for the Portuguese throne, the Tower fought and surrendered to the Duke of Alba. In the following centuries the Tower was mainly used as a prison (with the underground cellars regularly flooding) and as a custom house. Indeed, given its height and lack of dissimulation in the landscape, some historians believe the Tower was mostly intended to serve as a customs outpost.
In the 1840s, under the impulse of romantic writer Almeida Garrett, the Tower of Belém was restored by King Ferdinand II. At this point many neo-manueline decorative elements were added to the building. It was declared a National Monument in 1910.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padrão_dos_Descobrimentos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padrão_dos_Descobrimentos
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Belém
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belém_Tower

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[Lusitanus]

@Eleaven11 well let me correct your ignorance, the first people to enslave africans were summerians, egyptians - romans, then USA is more racist than any other country, you can see the millions of cases from american police, and it has the biggest modern slavery in the world, which means people slaves themself to survive.

[AdrianoLima12]

@Eleaven11 CALA A BOCA CARALHO FILHO DE UMA GANDA PUTA E FALA PORTUGUES QUE EU NÃO PERCEBO A TUA LÍNGUA DE MACACOS PRETO AMERICANO DE MERDA

[Eleaven11]

@AdrianoLima12 construction, I cant stop laughing is that what you do?

[Eleaven11]

@AdrianoLima12 construction work, you bitch made nigga i work from home run my own business....I dont u sit tight and wait till the IMF writes you a check....U poor white trash!!

[AdrianoLima12]

@Eleaven11 cala a boca filho da puta e ãi trabalhar mazé na construção civil caralho!!!

[oOMaryFelixOo]

@Eleaven11 and "race" is a wrong concept. "Race" doesn't exist in humans, there are different ethnicities but all belong to the "Homo sapiens sapiens" subspecies. And I don't have any problem with eastern europeans.

[oOMaryFelixOo]

@Eleaven11 the fuck are you talking about? We were also one of the first countries to abolish slavery. There is a huge african comunity in Portugal. We are not racists. "your economy was based on ruining peoples countries, races" nope, it was based on discovery and conquer. There were no "countries" before we got there. And I'm sure you know the first to enslave Africans were africans themselves.

[SolPortugalTP]

Apreciamos bastante.

[losteden]

faltava construir uma replica da nau madre de deus e colocar ai tambem

[Eleaven11]

Eu sou alfacinha....Viva ao Benfica.......My country is England! I just stay in the U.S. for the winters punk