Relógio de Sol Floral - Lisboa, Portugal
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manchanegra
N 38° 41.802 W 009° 12.378
29S E 482060 N 4283140
Floral sundial found in Lisbon in front of Jerónimos Monastery.
Waymark Code: WMD7BY
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 11/30/2011
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Floral sundial found in Lisbon in front of Jerónimos Monastery.
This is a very particular sundial. The Anchor is the gnomon and the grass design as the dial plate.
The sundial was created in the 1940 for the "Exposição do Mundo Português" (Portuguese world exhibition). In the last years the grass was plain and there was no indications that could tell us the time of day. In the last year, local city hall in cooperation with the "Pavillion of Knowleage Live Science" (Science museum in Lisbon) replanted the grass and added diferent bushes creating traces in the dial and allowing anyone passing by to calculate the hours of day.
Sundial Type: Horizontal - Flat base, Ground or Pedestal mounted dial plate
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Visit Instructions:
Only one log per location per person. You should log your own waymarked sundials as well.
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