Monument to Columbus, Huelva
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| Location | Huelva, Spain |
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| Designer | Gertrude Whitney |
| Height | 37 m |
| Beginning date | 1927 |
| Completion date | 1929 |
| Opening date | 21 April 1929 |
| Dedicated to | Christopher Columbus |
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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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