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Texto em português mais abaixo.
Today, June 10th, it's the National Day in Portugal, officially called Day of Camões, of Portugal and of the Portuguese Communities (the communities mean the Portuguese emigrants all over the world - some 5 million). The national holiday does not celebrate independence or a grand battle. The holiday of the nationhood celebrates the greatest poet of Portuguese language, Luís de Camões (c. 1524 – June 10, 1580) who wrote the epic poem The Lusiads.
The main square in Mindelo, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde known as Praça Nova displays this bust of Camões.
It's worth note that the main square in Mindelo (officially called Praça Amílcar Cabral) doesn't present a statue of Cabral or other revolutionary of Cape Verde's independence. Instead, there is Camões in this side and the Marquês and Visconde de Sá da Bandeira on the other side, both decorated with old Portuguese symbols.
After independence, the Cape-Verdeans did not destroy the historic colonial monuments and symbols. They belong to History and in the case of Camões, after all, he is the greatest poet of a language spoken in Cape Verde since more than 500 years ago.
In workshop there is a better view of the statue.

Location: * Localização: 16.8896197, -24.9877542.
Ao contrário de outros povos, após a independência os cabo-verdianos não destruiram as estátuas e velhos símbolos coloniais. Tudo isso faz parte da História. Assim, é reconfortante para os portugueses verem este busto de Camões na ainda chamada Praça Nova, a principal do Mindelo, ilha de São Vicente, Cabo Verde, oficialmente chamada Praça Amílcar Cabral; no outro lado da praça encontra-se um busto do Marquês e Visconde de Sá da Bandeira, também decorado com símbolos portugueses.
No workshop está uma vista melhor do busto, incluindo Os Lusíadas em baixo.

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