Luís Carlos Prestes Memorial (Palmas)

Brazil / Tocantins / Palmas
 memorial, Oscar Niemeyer (architect)

Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a leader of the 1920s tenente rebellion and the Communist opposition to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil.
Known as the "knight of hope," - title of the biography of him written by Jorge Amado - Prestes was involved in organizing the failed tenente rebellion of 1922, a revolt by the largely middle class officer corps and poor conscripted servicemen against the agrarian oligarchies that dominated Brazil's Old Republic (1889–1930)
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Coordinates:   10°11'11"S   48°20'6"W
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