Portuguese Discovery Monument at Brenton Point State Park: The meaning behind its shape
The area is said to resemble Portugal’s Sagres Point, where Prince Henry the Navigator and others began their maritime journeys to the east.
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The area is said to resemble Portugal’s Sagres Point, where Prince Henry the Navigator and others began their maritime journeys to the east.
The park is far enough from downtown Newport that the ocean crashing against the shore is typically the only background noise.
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An intact 12th-century junk was found on the bottom of the South China Sea in 1987. It took 20 years just to develop an excavation plan that preserved this...
An intact 12th-century junk was found on the bottom of the South China Sea in 1987. It took 20 years just to develop an excavation plan that preserved this priceless time capsule.