National Cabrillo Monument
The Cabrillo National Monument is a American national Monument the United States located in California.
The September 28th 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo unloaded in the Baie of San Diego. This event marked the first time that a European forwarding had posed the foot on what would become later the west coast of the the United States. With an aim of honouring this discovery, Cabrillo National Monument was created the October 14th 1913. The explorer is represented through a heroic statue which looks towards broad bay. This statue was carried out by the sculptor Alvaro de Bree for the government Portuguese in 1939, which gave it to the the United States. The monument is 4 meters high and weighs 6 tons. A museum is also present on the site, it makes it possible to discover the voyages of Cabrillo through a film and exposures.
The annual festival Cabrillo Festival Open House is held each October the Sunday. It commemorates Cabrillo with a reconstitution of its arrival with Ballast Not, in the Baie of San Diego. Other events also take place with the National Monument, of which activities for the children, of the songs and the dances Portuguese, kumeyaay and Mexican…
The park offers a superb sight on the port and the town of San Diego like on Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island. On the highest point of the park is the Old Point Loma Lighthouse , a Phare which was the icon of San Diego since 1854. In an older building of the army one exposure tells the history of artillery of the coast with Point Loma. In Winter, the gray whales which migrate can be seen from the coast.
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