The Happy Traveller
Monument to the Discoveries
This is a close-up of Padrão dos Descobrimentos, 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 the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. We made it to Lisbon there last year from Madeira before driving south to the Algarve.
Monument to the Discoveries
This is a close-up of Padrão dos Descobrimentos, 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 the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. We made it to Lisbon there last year from Madeira before driving south to the Algarve.