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Camões Monument

1867 establishments in PortugalBuildings and structures completed in 1867Monuments and memorials in Lisbon
Statue Luís Camões Lisbonne 4
Statue Luís Camões Lisbonne 4

The Camões Monument (Portuguese: Monumento a Camões) is a monument located in Luís de Camões Square in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. The monument comprises a tall bronze statue of Luís de Camões, the national poet, on a lioz limestone pillar surrounded by eight smaller statures of leading figures of Portuguese culture and literature in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes, Pedro Nunes, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo, Jerónimo Corte-Real, and Francisco de Sá de Meneses. The monument was sculpted by Victor Bastos and unveiled in 1867, in the presence of King Luís I and his father, Ferdinand II.

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Camões Monument
Praça Luís de Camões, Lisbon Misericórdia (Misericórdia)

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Luís de Camões

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1200-243 Lisbon, Misericórdia (Misericórdia)
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