Monument to Columbus, Huelva

The Monument to Columbus^[1] (Spanish: Monumento a Colón), also known as Monument to the Discovering Faith^[2] (Spanish: Monumento a la Fe Descubridora), is a monument in Huelva, Spain. It is a work by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Monument to Columbus

Monumento a Colón
Location	Huelva, Spain
Coordinates	37°12′44″N 6°56′25″W
Designer	Gertrude Whitney
Height	37 m
Beginning date	1927
Completion date	1929
Opening date	21 April 1929
Dedicated to	Christopher Columbus

Funded via a popular subscription in the United States channeled by the Columbus Memorial Fund Inc.,^[3][4] the monument, 37-metre high, was built from 1927 to 1929.^[5] Erected on the Punta del Sebo, the confluence of the Tinto and Odiel rivers,^[6] 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.^[7][8]

The sculpted man (leaning on a Tau cross) is sometimes described as representing a friar from La Rábida,^[9] yet it originally was described (including by the author herself) as a statue of Christopher Columbus.^[3][10]

It consists of a mortar structure covered by ashlar masonry (calcarenite).^[5]

See also

• List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus