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Monument to Columbus

Monumento a Colón
37°12′44″N 6°56′25″W / 37.21229°N 6.94037°W / 37.21229; -6.94037
Location	Huelva, Spain
Designer	Gertrude Whitney
Height	37 m
Beginning date	1927
Completion date	1929
Opening date	21 April 1929
Dedicated to	Christopher Columbus

The Monument to Columbus (Spanish: Monumento a Colón), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith (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., the monument, 37-metre high, was built from 1927 to 1929. Erected on the Punta del Sebo, the confluence of the Tinto and Odiel rivers, 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.

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

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

See also

• List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus

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. ^ Sugrañés, Eduardo J. (3 August 2019). "El Monumento a Colón: Desmontando los mitos". Huelva Información.
4. Márquez Macías 2011, p. 36.
5. ^ 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.

Bibliography

• Carretero, María Isabel; Bernabé, José Manuel (2012). "Guía didáctica del estado de alteración del Monumento a Colón de Huelva (España)" (PDF). In Miguel Sarmiento, Aguasanta; Cantano Martín, Mercedes; Ruiz de Almodóvar Sel, Gabriel (eds.). Comunicaciones del XVII Simposio sobre Enseñanza de la Geología. pp. 314–324. ISBN 978-84-15633-09-9.
• Márquez Macías, Rosario (2011). Huelva y América. Cien años de Americanismo. Revista "La Rábida" (1911-1933) (PDF). ISBN 978-84-7993-220-6.

• Colossal statues in Spain
• Monuments and memorials in Andalusia
• Outdoor sculptures in Andalusia
• Sculptures of men in Spain
• Huelva
• Statues of Christopher Columbus
• Monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus
• Buildings and structures in the Province of Huelva
• Sculptures by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney