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Pillars or Columns of Hercules

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Los Pilares de Hércules o Columnas de Hércules, es un monumento ubicado en un mirador en el estrecho de Gibraltar y que su función era señalar el límite donde acababa el mar Mediterráneo y donde comenzaba el océano Atlántico. Durante muchos años el mirador de los Pilares de Hércules era denominado por los promontorios que flanquean la entrada al Estrecho de Gibraltar. Las teorías de su construcción son varias ya que según los fenicios eran denominadas como las Columnas de Melkart, mientras que los griegos las denominaron como las Columnas de Heracles, hasta el nombre que hoy conocemos que lo pusieron los romanos. Se ha estudiado muchas veces el significado de su simbología desde que las columnas de Hércules fueron el origen del símbolo del Dolar, hasta que provienen del escudo de España con el símbolo Non Plus Ultra.
The Pillars of Hercules or Columns of Hercules, is a monument located in a gazebo in the Strait of Gibraltar and that its role was to point the boundary where the Mediterranean Sea and just where the Atlantic Ocean began. For many years the viewpoint of the Pillars of Hercules was called by the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The theories of its construction are several since according to the Phoenicians were known as the Pillars of Melkarth, while the Greeks called them as the Pillars of Heracles, to the name we know today that the Romans put it. It has been studied many times the meaning of their symbolism from the Pillars of Hercules were the origin of the dollar symbol, until the shield comes Spain with the symbol Non Plus Ultra.
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