4912 x 7360 px | 41,6 x 62,3 cm | 16,4 x 24,5 inches | 300dpi
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Huge column of La Rabida Monastery Gardens, Huelva province, Region of Andalusia, Spain. The Monument to the Discoverers, also known as the Column of the IV Centenary, is an example of public art in the "Paraje de la Rábida" in the Spanish city of Palos de la Frontera. It is dedicated to the "discoverers" of America. Towards the beginning of the 1890s, the Provincial Council of Huelva entrusted Ricardo Velázquez Bosco with the erection of a monument to Columbus and the explorers of America on a plot previously owned by the Casa de Alba, in the vicinity of the La Rábida monastery. . The monument was inaugurated on October 12, 1892, the day marking the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in America (on a Caribbean island). The original project consisted of a hexagonal pedestal with several bodies, which served as a base for a column, crowned by a globe. Between 1963 and 1967 the monument underwent a Luis Martínez-Feduchi restoration, which substantially altered the original work. At the dawn of the 21st century, the monument was in a very poor state of conservation. It was declared a site of cultural interest in 2008.
