Island of Mozambique
Ilha de Moçambique, Nampula, Mozambique
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The island of Mozambique, located on the east coast of Africa and surrounded by the Indian Ocean, constituted, in the 15th and 16th centuries, an important strategic point on the Portuguese commercial route to India.
At the end of the 16th century, the two fortresses, the hospital, the various churches and the religious houses testified to the importance that the island had acquired.
The seventeenth century constituted, in the history of the Island of Mozambique, a troubled time. With the Dutch perceiving the strategic importance of that territory, several assaults and attempted occupations took place, including the sieges of 1607 and 1608, which caused enormous damage in the city. It was also during this period that the Jesuits settled there, and that the export trade of slaves to Brazil began.
In the 19th century, the Island of Mozambique declined in importance. Focused on the slave trade, facts such as the independence of Brazil in 1822, and the abolition of slavery in 1837, contributed to its decline. As a result, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Island is open to the black population and a natural partition gives the space an original feature: on the one hand the stone and lime city, with the remaining testimonies of the Portuguese presence, and on the other side, the city of macúti, built by the natives with the materials and constructive techniques inherent to their culture.
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Accès à la jetée des douanes (Ilha de Moçambique) |
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Palais de São Paulo ou musée de l'île de Mozambique |
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Église de la Miséricorde (Ilha de Moçambique) |
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Arcos ou Arcadas Street (île du Mozambique) |
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Port de la capitainerie (île du Mozambique) |
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Cinéma Nina Theatre (île du Mozambique) |
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Plage de Fortaleza (île du Mozambique) |
| 0,6 Km |
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Forteresse de São Sebastião (Ilha de Moçambique) |
| 0,6 Km |
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Jardin de la mémoire (Ilha de Moçambique) |
| 0,6 Km |
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Forte do Baluarte, Ilha de Moçambique |
| 0,8 Km |
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Eglise de Santo António (île du Mozambique) |
| 1,5 Km |
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Marché municipal (île du Mozambique) |
| 1,7 Km |
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Fort de São Lourenço (île du Mozambique) |
| 2,1 Km |
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Pont d'accès à l'île de Mozambique |
| 4,3 Km |
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Plage de Chocas (Cabaceira) |
| 6,9 Km |
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Plage de la Carrusca (Cabaceira) |
| 7,0 Km |
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