Monument to Columbus, Huelva


Monument to Columbus
Monumento a Colón
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37°12′44″N 6°56′25″W / 37.21229°N 6.94037°W / 37.21229; -6.94037
LocationHuelva, Spain
DesignerGertrude Whitney
Height37 m
Beginning date1927
Completion date1929
Opening date21 April 1929
Dedicated toChristopher Columbus

The Monument to Columbus[1] (Spanish: Monumento a Colón), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith[2] (Spanish: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora), is a monument in Huelva, Spain. It is a work by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Funded via a popular subscription in the United States channeled by the Columbus Memorial Fund Inc.,[3][4] the monument, 37-metre high, was built from 1927 to 1929.[5] Erected on the Punta del Sebo, the confluence of the Tinto and Odiel rivers,[6] it was inaugurated on 21 April 1929, during a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Miguel Primo de Rivera and the US ambassador Ogden H. Hammond.[7][8]

The sculpted man (leaning on a Tau cross) is sometimes described as representing a friar from La Rábida,[9] yet it originally was described (including by the author herself) as a statue of Christopher Columbus.[3][10]

It consists of a mortar structure covered by ashlar masonry (calcarenite).[5]

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References

Citations
  1. ^ "Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva". UNESCO. 29 January 2016.
  2. ^ Domenech, Daniel (2018). "The National Revolution Architecture: Rooted Modernism in the Spanish New State (1939–1959)". Fascism. 7 (2). Brill: 232–233. doi:10.1163/22116257-00702004.
  3. ^ a b Sugrañés, Eduardo J. (3 August 2019). "El Monumento a Colón: Desmontando los mitos". Huelva Información.
  4. ^ Márquez Macías 2011, p. 36.
  5. ^ a b Carretero & Bernabé 2012, p. 315.
  6. ^ Font, Rosa (19 June 2020). "Huelva redescubre a Cristóbal Colón". ABC.
  7. ^ "La construcción de un símbolo". El Mundo. 12 March 2012.
  8. ^ Márquez Macías 2011, p. 39.
  9. ^ Gómez Romero, Luis Carlos (6 March 2020). "¿Sabías que?". Junta de Andalucía.
  10. ^ Márquez Macías 2011, p. 41.
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