The bust of Lucian Blaga (; ; ) is a monument in the city of Estoril, within the Lisbon District in Portugal. It is placed on the corner of Clotilde Avenue and Arcadas do Parque Street, in front of the Estroil Garden. It commemorates Lucian Blaga, a 20th-century philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, and politician, who was the plenipotentiary minister of Romania to Portugal from 1938 to 1939. The monument takes a form of a broze bust sculpture placed on top of a white stone pedestal, measuring 3 meters in total. It was designed by Aurel Gheorghe Ardelean and unveiled on 2 June 2014.
History The monument was proposed by Vasile Popovici, the ambassador of Romania to Portugal from 2006 to 2011. The sculpture was designed by Aurel Gheorghe Ardelean, and was unveiled in Estroil on 2 June 2014, by Titus Corlățean, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The monument was dedicated to Lucian Blaga, a 20th-century philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, and politician, who was the plenipotentiary minister of Romania to Portugal from 1938 to 1939. He resided in Estroil, in the nearby Hotel Palácio, for a month in 1938.
On 28 June 2016, the sculpture titled Three Polish Emissaries by Karol Badyna was also unveiled next to the bust of Blaga. It was dedicated dedicated to three couriers of the Polish government-in-exile during the Second World War, Jan Karski, Jerzy Lerski, and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański.
Description The monument consists of a bronze bust sculpture of Lucian Blaga, placed on top of a white stone pedestal. In total, the monument measures 3 m (9.84 ft). It is placed at the corner of Clotilde Avenue and Arcadas do Parque Street, in front of the Estoril Garden, and near the Hotel Palácio, which housed Blaga for a month in 1938. The pedestal features features the following Portuguese inscription:
Below, it also bears a quote from Blaga's poem Saudade in Portuguese, which reads:
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