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Arts And Culture In Santiago, Cape Verde
The Culture of the Island of Santiago, Cape Verde is the richest in the nation, with a range of customs and practices common in the islands, Cuisine The most popular cuisine is cachupa as is in the rest of the nation. Delicacies originated from the island include grogue, a strong rum made from distilled sugar cane, one of two islands that are popular, common around Cidade Velha with its distillations there mainly within Ribeira Grande de Santiago stream and on Ribeira Principal. Until the mid 2000s, turtle steak was one of the island's traditional dish, in In December 2002, the Cape Verdean government prohibited the killing of turtles by law, per their participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995 e a Convenção sobre Comercio Internacional de Espécies de Fauna e Flora Selvagem Ameaçadas de Extinção (CITES). Literature Literature is very rich on the island of Santiago and is the richest in all of the Cape Verde Islands. In Cidade Velha, there was a ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago ( Portuguese for “Saint James”) is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies between the islands of Maio ( to the east) and Fogo ( to the west). It was the first of the islands to be settled: the town of Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha and a UNESCO World Heritage Site) was founded in 1462. Santiago is home to the nation's capital city of Praia. History The eastern side of the nearby island of Fogo collapsed into the ocean 73,000 years ago, creating a tsunami 170 meters high which struck Santiago. In 1460, António de Noli became the first to visit the island. Da Noli settled at ''Ribeira Grande'' (now Cidade Velha) with his family members and Portuguese from Algarve and Alentejo in 1462.Valor simb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arménio Vieira
Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (; born January 29, 1941) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet and journalist. He began his activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice (Coimbra) review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, FragmentosSopinha de Alfabetoand others. Three of his poems— ''Lisboa'' (1971), ''Quiproquo'' and ''Ser tigre''— can be found on the CD '' Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama'' by Afonso Dias. He won the Camões Prize in 2009 on the work ''O Poema, a Viagem, o Sonho''. His poems were celebrated by Mito Elias (also simply as Mito) in Praia and Mindelo in 2011. He started a series of "versions of books, poetic and miscellaneous notes" in June 2013 with ''O Brumário'', later ''Derivações do Brumário'' and recently ''Fantasmas e Fantasias do Brumário'' in 2014. Works *1971: ''Lisboa'' (''Lisbon'') *Around 1971 and 1972: ''Quiproquo'' and ''Ser tigre'' *1981: ''Poemas'' - ''África Editora'' - ''Colecção ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplício Rodrigues De Sá
Simplício Rodrigues de Sá ( , São Nicolau Tolentino, Cape Verde, — 9 March 1839, Rio de Janeiro) was a Portuguese-born painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Brazil. Biography Simplício Rodrigues de Sá was born in the parish of São Nicolau Tolentino (now part of the municipality of São Domingos) just north of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago He studied in Lisbon and emigrated to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1809. Seven years later, he became a follower of Jean Baptiste Debret, joining his group, the French Artistic Mission and helping to lay the foundations for what would become the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes in 1826.Brief biographies @ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. He was also named a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mito Elias
Fernando Hamilton Barbosa Elias, also known as Mito or Mito Elias (born 9 August 1965) is a Cape Verdean artist, visual artist and a poet. Biography Mito Elias was born in Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde. He studied art at Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual Arco (Ar.Co) in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1989 and 1992. He has lived and worked in the diaspora since 1989, developing an original imagery language consisting of the search for Creole oral traditions and tales, a symbiotic style between wash, writing and multimedia, and has thus been named Mare Calamus. Since 1983, he has regularly presented his exhibits, work drawn, painted, written or video-graphed, travelling to all corners of the world. He is represented in exhibitions all over the world, including the World Bank (USA), BNU (Macao, China), Afro Brasil Museum (São Paulo, Brazil), Regional Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, Presidency of the Cape Verde Republic, Embassy of Cape Verde in Lisbon and Ethnic Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calheta De São Miguel
Calheta de São Miguel is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , p. 32-33 in the northern part of the island of , . In 2010 its population was 3,175. It is on the east coast, north of the capital |
Pedra Badejo
Pedra Badejo is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , p. 32-33 in the eastern part of the island of , . It is on the east coast, north of the island capital , southeas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarrafal, Cape Verde
Tarrafal (also: ''Mangui'' or ''Mangue'') is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , p. 32-33 in the northern part of the island of , . In 2010 its population was 6,656. It is a fishing port situated on the northwestern coast. It constitutes the seat of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platô
''Plateau'' is the historic centre of the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It gets its name (from French “plateau”) because it is situated on a plateau overlooking the port of Praia. Its average elevation is 37 meters above sea level. The population of ''Plateau'' was 1,019 at the 2010 census. Many public buildings are situated in ''Plateau'', notably the Presidential Palace, the cathedral, the city hall and the Ethnographic Museum. Adjacent neighbourhoods are Gamboa/Chã de Areia to the south, Várzea to the southwest and west, Achadinha to the northwest, Fazenda to the north and Praia Negra to the east. History Praia was founded as a small village near the natural harbour in the early 16th century. Due to its strategic position on a plateau it was easily defended against pirate attacks, which gave it a large advantage over the older city of Ribeira Grande (Cidade Velha). It gradually superseded Cidade Velha to become the most important set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Ferreira (writer)
Sérgio Manuel Napoleão Ferreira (1946– 2006) was a Portuguese–Cape Verdean writer and filmmaker. Biography He was the son of the Portuguese writer Manuel Ferreira and Cape Verdean writer Orlanda Amarílis. He moved to Pangim in Goa in what was Portuguese India during his childhood and later in Africa. He did not want to participate in the colonial wars in Africa, he lived in exile in London for six years, where he worked in film at the London Film School for cinema and television, he also studied at the Contemporary Film Makers Studio. He also studied in cinematography in Lisbon at Escola Superior de Teatro and Cinema (Theatre and Film High School); he commonly studied with other actors in Lisbon at the National Conservatory. He later became a film producer, took part in filming some films on personalities of Portuguese culture, the feature films for RTP, mainly on the life on Fernando Namora, Leal da Câmara, Pomar, Armando Jorge, Jorge Peixinho, António Casim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Creole , situated in the same island.
Santiago Creole is the name given to the Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch of Creole. Santiago Creole is the linguistic entity of the most important island of Cape Verde, and the linguistic entity of the capital of the country, Praia Praia (, Portuguese language, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Characteristics Besides the main characteristics of Sotavento Creoles the Santiago Creole has also the following ones: * The progressive aspect of the present is formed by putting ''sâ tâ'' before the verbs: ''sâ tâ'' + V. * In the verbs, the stress goes ba ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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