For the Combatants Overseas (sculpture)
The Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar marks the veterans of the Portuguese Colonial War, and it is set beside the Forte do Bom Sucesso in Belém. It was created to honor the military who fought in Africa between 1961 and 1974 in defense of the “Pátria,” a framing that ties the memorial directly to the final years of Portugal’s colonial conflict. The project was created in 1991 by a team led by the architect Francisco José Ferreira Guedes de Carvalho. Inauguration followed on 15 January 1994, conducted by Adriano Moreira and General Altino de Magalhães, then president of the Liga dos Combatentes. Since that year, each 10 June, this site hosts the Encontro Nacional de Combatentes. Today the monument’s form is anchored by a pond with a central statue, and in 2000, plaques were installed along the fort holding the names of those who died in the line of duty—turning the landscape into a roll call of the conflict.
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