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Centre historique de São Filipe

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The historic center of São Filipe on the island of Fogo dates from the 19th century and is known for its “sobrados” town houses. These are two-storey mansions where the elite lived on the upper floor and their slaves on the lower floor. The houses have richly decorated facades as well as wooden balconies.

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Centre historique de São Filipe (ID: 6104)
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On tentative list 2016 Site history
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2016: Added to Tentative List
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First published: 18/06/18.

Wojciech Fedoruk

Centre Historique De São Filipe

Centre historique de São Filipe (On tentative list)

Centre historique de São Filipe by Wojciech Fedoruk

Although Fogo is one of the most interesting islands of Cape Verde, not many tourist go there. Majority of those who choose to visit Fogo, stay in its capital, Sao Filipe. Sao Filipe is a small town, located on the high cliff, so the ocean is visible from practically everywhere. The town is poorer than caboverdian average and preserved most of its colonial style. There are even no asphalted roads, only cobblestone ones, which makes the town more “authentic” than, say, popular and modernized Mindelo. Despite that, it may be difficult to document outstanding universal value of this place, especially taking into account that the local government does not care of historic integrity of the town – so there are new, modern looking buildings next to historical ones.

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