Monumento a Zumbi dos Palmares
1986
public art
Erected in 1986 on a busy Centro avenue, this monument honors Zumbi, the last leader of Quilombo dos Palmares, the largest community of escaped enslaved people in colonial Brazil. The bronze figure stands in a defiant posture atop a stone p …
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