Camões Monument
The Camões Monument () is a monument located in :pt:Praça de Luís de Camões, 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, lioz limestone pillar surrounded by eight smaller statues of leading figures of Portuguese culture and literature in the Portuguese discoveries, 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 Luís I of Portugal, King Luís I and his father, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Ferdinand II. History The first proposal to dedicate a monument to Camões dates to the beginning of the 19th century, following the publication of the 1817 luxury edition of ''The Lusiads'' sponsored by the Majorat, Morgado of Mateus, in Par ...
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