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The “right” side of the Padrão
The Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Monument to the Discoveries, has had two lives, and it has two sides, but some say that only one of them is the “right” side.
Episode 3 – The “right” side of the Padrão
|Created and produced by Marco António
|Translated and narrated Lucy Pepper
|Official theme tune: “Fado do Sonho“ – Pensão Flor
|Additional music: Lee Rosevere | Orquestra Popular de Paio Pires
|The Portuguese version of this episode can be found at “Histórias de Portugal”
(narrated by Marco António)
O Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the Monument to the Discoveries, in Lisbon, almost never existed. It was imagined, at the last minute, in the middle of the night in 1939 by Cottinelli Telmo, but only after they had told him that his plans for the Exposição do Mundo Português of 1940, the Exhibition of The Portuguese World, lacked “something”. Even though he was annoyed, he came up with the idea for the monument (modelled later in plaster by the sculptor, Leopoldo de Almeida) and not only was it the star of the Estado Novo’s exhibition, but it was reconstructed definitively twenty years later, in concrete and stone, next to the Tejo, where today it is one of Lisbon’s tourist must-sees.
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The Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Monument to the Discoveries, has had two lives, and it has two sides, but some say that only one of them is the “right” side.
Episode 3 – The “right” side of the Padrão
|Created and produced by Marco António
|Translated and narrated Lucy Pepper
|Official theme tune: “Fado do Sonho“ – Pensão Flor
|Additional music: Lee Rosevere | Orquestra Popular de Paio Pires
|The Portuguese version of this episode can be found at “Histórias de Portugal”
(narrated by Marco António)
O Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the Monument to the Discoveries, in Lisbon, almost never existed. It was imagined, at the last minute, in the middle of the night in 1939 by Cottinelli Telmo, but only after they had told him that his plans for the Exposição do Mundo Português of 1940, the Exhibition of The Portuguese World, lacked “something”. Even though he was annoyed, he came up with the idea for the monument (modelled later in plaster by the sculptor, Leopoldo de Almeida) and not only was it the star of the Estado Novo’s exhibition, but it was reconstructed definitively twenty years later, in concrete and stone, next to the Tejo, where today it is one of Lisbon’s tourist must-sees.