Check the listing for details. Sword of Christopher Columbus Gold. Condition: New. Listed at 228.14 USD. Sword of Christopher Columbus Gold Sword of Christopher Columbus Gold Christopher Columbus was a navigator, cartographer, admiral, viceroy and governor-general of the West Indies in the service of the Crown of Castile. He began as a modest craftsman and merchant who made contact with the sea through cabotage navigation for commercial purposes. He made four trips to the Indies in 1507, and although he was possibly not the first European explorer of America is considered the discoverer of a new continent, the New World, being the first to chart a round trip route across the Atlantic Ocean and gave know the news. This decisively spurred the global expansion of European civilization, and the conquest and colonization by several of its powers in the Americas. A wise geographer and intelligent sailor, he conceived and matured his colossal project of exploration of the Indies in the Western Seas, a project he offered to several European courts and tycoons and which he found rude opposition to the companys distrust. He faced the most widespread beliefs of his time, holding up his theory of the sphericity of the earth. Only after twenty years of multiple setbacks did he get the support in Spain of the Catholic Monarchs. He was granted three carabellas, the Pinta, la Niña, and the Santa Maria, and on August 3, 1492 he sailed from the port of Palos. On October 12 of the same year he landed american soil and landed on the island of Guanahani (San Salvador), and began the DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. The Sword of Christopher Columbus appears in numerous paintings in the discovery of America and is therefore one of the most popular and well-known. Length: 116 cm Width: 21 cm Weight: 1.6 kg A high quality sword from the exclusive collection «historical, fantastic and legendary Swords» manufactured by MARTo.