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Wikipedia: Padrão dos Descobrimentos (lit. Monument to the Discoveries) is a monument that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration, 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.
![[Wind rose on the pavement in front of the monument.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prt095_s.jpg "Wind rose on the pavement in front of the monument.")
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![[Padrão dos Descobrimentos by the Tagus, view from West]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Padr_C3_A3o_Descobrimentos_April_2009_3c_s.jpg "Padrão dos Descobrimentos by the Tagus, view from West")
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![[Detail of the monument showing the mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes with an armillary sphere]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pedro_Nunes_April_2009_1a_s.jpg "Detail of the monument showing the mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes with an armillary sphere")
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