Monument to the Discovery Faith

The Monument to the Discovery Faith (Spanish: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora), popularly known as el Monumento a Colón ("the Monument to Columbus") is a monument in Huelva, Spain. It is a work by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Monument to the Discovery Faith
Monumento a la Fe Descubridora
Coordinates37°12′44″N 6°56′25″W
LocationHuelva, Spain
DesignerGertrude Whitney
Height37 m
Beginning date1927
Completion date1929
Opening date21 April 1929
Dedicated toChristopher Columbus

Funded via a popular subscription in the United States channeled by the Columbus Memorial Fund Inc.,[1][2] the monument, 37-metre high, was built from 1927 to 1929.[3] Erected on the Punta del Sebo, the confluence of the Tinto and Odiel rivers,[4] it was inaugurated on 21 April 1929, during a ceremony attended by Miguel Primo de Rivera and the US ambassador Ogden H. Hammond.[5][6]

The sculpted man (leaning on a Tau cross) is sometimes described as representing a friar from La Rábida,[7] yet it originally was described (including by the author herself) as a statue of Christopher Columbus.[1][8]

It consists of a mortar structure covered by ashlar masonry (calcarenite).[3]

References
Citations
  1. Sugrañés, Eduardo J. (3 August 2019). "El Monumento a Colón: Desmontando los mitos". Huelva Información.
  2. Márquez Macías 2011, p. 36.
  3. Carretero & Bernabé 2012, p. 315.
  4. Font, Rosa (19 June 2020). "Huelva redescubre a Cristóbal Colón". ABC.
  5. "La construcción de un símbolo". El Mundo. 12 March 2012.
  6. Márquez Macías 2011, p. 39.
  7. Gómez Romero, Luis Carlos (6 March 2020). "¿Sabías que?". Junta de Andalucía.
  8. Márquez Macías 2011, p. 41.
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