The Monument to the Açorianos is a monument in the city of Porto Alegre, in honor of the arrival, in 1752, of the first sixty Azorean couples who populated the city. It opened on March 26, 1974, the city’s birthday.[1] The work is 17 m high by 24 m long.
The monument is a work of sculptor Carlos Tenius and resembles a caravel, made up of intertwined human bodies, with a winged figure in front of it that resembles the mythological Icarus and represents Victory.
On the monument there is the following writing:
“Those Azorean couples would never have dreamed that the splendor of this city would be born from the seed they sowed in the ground.”
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