The Monumento de Diogo Gomes is a statue at the south end of the Plateau, the historic centre of Praia, on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.[1]: 157–159 It represents Diogo Gomes, the Portuguese navigator who was one of the discoverers of the island of Santiago in 1460.[1]: 73 The cast iron statue was created by the Portuguese sculptor Joaquim Correia in 1956. The statue itself is 3.3 m tall, and stands on a 1.85 m high pedestal.[1]: 157–159 It stands close to the Presidential Palace, and overlooks the beach of Gamboa.
^ abcValor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia, Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008
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The MonumentodeDiogoGomes is a statue at the south end of the Plateau, the historic centre of Praia, on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.: 157–159 ...
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publisher (link) Almeida, D. Fernando de (1975), DRCLisboa (ed.), Monumentos e Edifícios Notáveis do Distrito de Lisboa (in Portuguese), vol. II, Lisbon...
It was the daughter of Diogo Brandão, D. Isabel Brandão, who married, in 1570, D. Francisco de Almeida (eldest son of D. João de Almeida, Governor General...
families and some cattle. By 1460, the chronicler DiogoGomesde Sintra identified the island as Ilha de Gonçalo Velho, with the choicest lands in the hands...
founded by Manuel I of Portugal, and erected by the archbishop of Braga, Diogode Sousa in 1518. In addition, the community included the Church of the Misericordia...
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bequeathed it to her brother-in-law Vicente Gomes do Couto. In the 18th century, the accountant D. Jerónimo Contador de Argote, noted in his records: "behind...
Rodrigues (1975). Monumentos e edifícios notáveis do distrito de Lisboa: Lisboa. Junta Distrital de Lisboa. p. 162. Mario Vieira de Carvalho; Luiz Francisco...
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