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Henry the Navigator 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.

The 33 featured Portuguese personalities are:[1]

Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (son of King John I of Portugal) Queen Philippa of Lancaster Fernão Mendes Pinto (explorer and writer) Friar Gonçalo de Carvalho Friar Henrique Carvalho Luís de Camões (renaissance poet who celebrated the navigations in the epic Lusiads) Nuno Gonçalves (painter) Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler) Pêro da Covilhã (traveller) Jácome de Maiorca (cosmographer) Pedro Escobar (navigator) Pedro Nunes (mathematician) Pêro de Alenquer (navigator) Gil Eanes (navigator) João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator) Infante Fernando, the Saint Prince (son of King John I of Portugal) Henry the Navigator (sponsor of the Age of Discovery) Afonso V of Portugal Vasco da Gama (discoverer of the sea route to India) Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (navigator) Pedro Álvares Cabral (discoverer of Brazil) Ferdinand Magellan (first to circumnavigate the globe) Nicolau Coelho (navigator) Gaspar Corte-Real (navigator) Martim Afonso de Sousa (navigator) João de Barros (writer) Estêvão da Gama (sea captain) Bartolomeu Dias (first to cross over the Cape of Good Hope) Diogo Cão (first to arrive to the Congo river) António Abreu (navigator) Afonso de Albuquerque (second viceroy of Portuguese India) Saint Francis Xavier (missionary)

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Lisbon, Portugal April 2010

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Author Lee Cannon from Bayville aka West Fenwick, DE, USA
Camera location38° 41′ 37.21″ N, 9° 12′ 20.62″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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