Praça Amílcar Cabral, also popularly known as Praça Nova (Portuguese for "new square"), is an important square of the city of
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São Vicente,
Cape Verde
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. It is located in the northern part of the
city center of Mindelo
The City center of Mindelo or Morada (Portuguese: ''Centro do Mindelo'') is the historic center of the Mindelo in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Its population was 1,553 at the 2010 census. It is the place where the island's first settlem ...
. The square is named after
Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (; – ) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, pan-Africanist, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat. He was one of Africa's forem ...
, a leader of the independence movement of Cape Verde and
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...
. Constructed in 1895, it was named after the colonial administrator
Serpa Pinto
Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Viscount of Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto; 20 April 184628 December 1900) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and a colonial administrator.
Early life
Serpa Pinto was born at ...
until Cape Verdean independence in 1975. It was laid out in a new, previously undeveloped part of the town.
[Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de S. Vicente]
Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 87–89 The square is surrounded by Rua Angola to the north, Rua Argelia to the east, Rua Patrice Lumumba to the south and Rua 5 de Julho to the west.
Notable buildings and structures around the square:
[Génese e desenvolvimento da cidade do Mindelo: a preservação de uma identidade]
Fred Yanick Fonseca Delgado, p. 123–130
*Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design
Centro Nacional de Arte, Artesanato e Design (CNAD) (English: "National Centre for Art, Crafts and Design") is a cultural centre in the city of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, in Cape Verde. It is the first cultural institution built from ...
(end of the 19th century)
*Cinema Éden Park (1922)
*the kiosk
Historically, a kiosk () was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Iran, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist ...
(1932)
*the ''New Building'' (1907–1910), built for the British company that operated the transatlantic telegraph cable
Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data a ...
, currently houses the telephone company CV Telecom
References
External links
Conjunto Urbano da Praça Nova
- HPIP page
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Mindelo
Squares in Cape Verde