Monumento de Diogo Gomes
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Lagos, Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Portugal
|Occupation||Navigator, explorer, writer|
The Monumento de Diogo Gomes or the Diogo Gomes Monument is a monument named after Diogo Gomes, the Portuguese navigator and discoverer of the island of Santiago in 1460. The monument overlooks the harbour of Praia including its nearby buildings and a small island with a historic house. The statue is approximately 15 m over its beach and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. The statue is over a steel-frame guardrail and is surrounded by a tree to the northeast side.
The statue is approximately 8 m tall. It is mainly a bronze statue and is on top of a marble block divided into and is over a three by three square totaling nine over a small five by five square block and underneath a white block which are surrounded by stone paved surface.
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