(Jane Wooldridge) But most visitors — especially foreigners — come for a glimpse of one of the cemetery's simpler sepulchers, marked not by statues and carved garlands but by simple bronze plaques.
In 2006, to mark the statue's 75th anniversary, a chapel at its base was consecrated to Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil.
Pope Pius XII's pastoral visit in the aftermath is marked by a statue of the pontiff with his arms raised.
The classical elements and proportions reach back to Columbus Circle's roots in the City Beautiful movement of the turn of the last century, a legacy marked by the statue of Columbus atop his column and by the Maine Memorial at the southwest entrance to Central Park.
Stone statues that marked the way to different places including New York City, Fishkill and Boston were put up along the road during the Revolution, helping suppliers of salt from Boston.
The inaugural ceremony was performed on Wall Street, near the spot now marked by John Quincy Adams Ward's statue of Washington.
The corner of Fondamenta dei Mori is marked by distinctive white statue with a metal nose, the Greek trader Rioba, while by the entrance to Tintoretto's house is another flamboyant statue of a turbaned Moorish trader.
The event is reenacted each April at Lexington Green (called Battle Green Park); the battleground is marked by the Minuteman Statue (1900) and by a boulder and plaque inscribed with Captain John Parker's words to his men: "Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have war, let it begin here".
Life-sized bronze statues mark the debate spot in a park opposite the Argosy Casino.
In the abbey church, recumbent statues mark the burial places of Henry II of England; his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine; and their son Richard I the Lion-Heart.
