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Description The Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom in Catalan, also known as the Monumento a Colon and Mirador de Colon in Spanish) is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument for Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain, Europe. It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) and is located at the site where Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas. The monument serves as a reminder that Barcelona is where Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella and Ferdinand after Columbus' most famous trip.At the very top of the monument stands a 7.2 m (24 ft) tall bronze statue atop a 40 m (131 ft) tall Corinthian column. The statue was sculpted by Rafael Atché and is said to depict Columbus pointing towards the New World with his right hand, while holding a scroll in the left. As it was sited, instead of pointing to the west towards the New World, the statue points east towards Columbus's supposed home city of Genoa. The statue is atop a socle, on which the word "Tierra" (land) is inscribed. [Wikipedia.org]
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Author Jorge Láscar from Australia
Camera location41° 22′ 32.94″ N, 2° 10′ 39.63″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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