Monument to Columbus, Huelva
Monumento a Colón | |
| Location | Huelva, Spain |
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| Coordinates | 37°12′44″N 6°56′25″W / 37.21229°N 6.94037°W |
| 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).