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Standing on the substantial waterfront Avenida Brasilia in the historic central Belem district of Lisbon, the Padrao dos Descobrimentos or Monument to the Discoveries is one of the most distinctive single monumental sculptures of the historic central Portuguese capital. The substantial principal monument was originally completed in its current substantial concrete form on 9 August 1960 to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator, the famous fifteenth-...