page_title: Padrão dos Descobrimentos
section_title: Statues
hierarchical_section_title: Padrão dos Descobrimentos / Architecture / Statues
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to the Portuguese discoveries (Padrão dos Descobrimentos), Lisbon. Detail showing the navigators Estevão da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, Diogo Cão and António Abreu raising a padrão (from left to right)
context_page_description: Padrão dos Descobrimentos is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
context_section_description: In addition to the main statue of Henry the Navigator, holding a model of a carrack, on either side of the ramps of the monument are a total of 33 figures from the history of the Discoveries, specifically (from right to left):
  
  
   
  Eastern profile
  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 de Abreu (navigator)
  Afonso de Albuquerque (second viceroy of Portuguese India)
  Saint Francis Xavier (missionary)
  Cristóvão da Gama (captain)
   
  Western profile
  Peter, Duke of Coimbra (son of King John I of Portugal)
  Queen Philippa of Lancaster
  Fernão Mendes Pinto (explorer and writer)
  Frei Gonçalo de Carvalho, O.P. (Dominican Missionary)
  Frei Henrique de Coimbra, O.F.M. (Franciscan Missionary)
  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 (cartographer)
  Pedro Escobar (pilot)
  Pedro Nunes (mathematician)
  Pêro de Alenquer (pilot)
  Gil Eanes (navigator)
  João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator)
  Ferdinand the Holy Prince (son of King John I of Portugal)
caption: Detail showing Estêvão da Gama (far left) and António Abreu (far right), Bartolomeu Dias (centre left) and Diogo Cão (centre right) raise a padrão/marker
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