The Fra Mauro Map, the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, is a map made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere. The world map was made by Fra Mauro and Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, under a commission by King Alfonso of Portugal. This copy was completed on April 24, 1459 sent to Portugal, but did not survive to the present day. The Fra Mauro map, inverted according to the modern North-South orientation. The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe.