Padrao dos Descobrimentos Monument to the Discoveries Portugal Tea Towel

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Padrao dos Descobrimentos tos Portugal
“Monument to the Discoveries” in Lisbon Tea Towel
Made in Portugal
100% Cotton
Green and white
26 inches long and 18 1/2 inches wide
Felular
The Padrão dos Descobrimentos is a bold and imposing monument situated on the banks Tejo Estuary. The monument celebrates the 15 and 16th-century Portuguese explorers and visionaries , who established Portugal as the most powerful seafaring nation of the era.
The original Padrao dos Descobrimentos was constructed for the 1940 World Fair, as a wood and plaster structure, but the perishable materials meant it soon had to be dismantled. The current limestone, concrete and steel reincarnation dates from the 1960s, and commemorated 500 years since the death of Henry the Navigator (Infante Dom Henrique).
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