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Vila Franco do Campo
(Fr. de São Miguel)
São Miguel (ilha)
Reg. Aut. dos Açores

Praça Bento de Góis

Bento de Góis

Bento de Goes

Vila Franco do Campo 1562 - Suzhou, Gansu, China, 1607
Portuguese Jesuit Brother, Missionary and explorer; the first known European to travel overland from India to China
(Wikipedia)

Numídico Bessone
1962

Description

Bronze statue of Bento de Góis

Inscription(s)

A
BENTO DE GOIS
no
ivº centenario
do seu nascimento
1562 1962

To
BENTO DE GOIS
at the
4th centenary
of his birth
1562 1962

Sculptor

Numídico Bessone Borges de Medeiros Amorim (Lagoa, São Miguel, Açores, 1913 - Lisboa 1985), Portuguese sculptor and medallist (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

João & Rita Freitas, Estatuária Micaelense (Ponta Delgada 2007) (also on-line in three parts at blogspot).

Location (N 37°42'57" - W 25°25'56")

Item Code: ptac088; Photograph: 24 June 2016
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