Monument to Columbus, Huelva explained

Monument to Columbus
Native Name:	Spanish; Castilian: Monumento a Colón
Location:	Huelva, Spain
Designer:	Gertrude Whitney
Height:	37 m
Begin:	1927
Complete:	1929
Open:	21 April 1929
Dedicated To:	Christopher Columbus
Coordinates:	37.2123°N -6.9404°W

The Monument to Columbus^[1] (Spanish; Castilian: Monumento a Colón|links=no), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith^[2] (Spanish; Castilian: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora|links=no), 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,^[3] 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.^[4]

The sculpted man (leaning on a Tau cross) is sometimes described as representing a friar from La Rábida,^[5] yet it originally was described (including by the author herself) as a statue of Christopher Columbus.^[6]

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

See also

• List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Book: Carretero, María Isabel. https://www.uhu.es/fexp/segeo2012/arc/comunicaciones/40.pdf. Guía didáctica del estado de alteración del Monumento a Colón de Huelva (España). José Manuel. Bernabé. Comunicaciones del XVII Simposio sobre Enseñanza de la Geología. Aguasanta. Miguel Sarmiento. Mercedes. Cantano Martín. Gabriel. Ruiz de Almodóvar Sel. 2012. 978-84-15633-09-9. 314–324.
• Book: Márquez Macías, Rosario. 2011. Huelva y América. Cien años de Americanismo. Revista "La Rábida" (1911-1933). 978-84-7993-220-6.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva . 29 January 2016. UNESCO.
2. The National Revolution Architecture: Rooted Modernism in the Spanish New State (1939–1959). 232–233. Fascism. Daniel. Domenech. 2018. 7. 2. Brill. 10.1163/22116257-00702004. free.
3. Web site: Huelva redescubre a Cristóbal Colón. ABC. Rosa. Font. 19 June 2020.
4. Web site: La construcción de un símbolo. El Mundo. 12 March 2012.
5. Web site: ¿Sabías que?. Junta de Andalucía. 6 March 2020. Luis Carlos. Gómez Romero.
6. Web site: El Monumento a Colón: Desmontando los mitos. Huelva Información. 3 August 2019. Eduardo J.. Sugrañés.