Ponta do Sol (formerly: ''Vila Dona Maria Pia'') is the northernmost cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 on the island of Santo Antão and

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

. It is situated on the coast, 4 km northwest of

Ribeira Grande Ribeira Grande may refer to the following places: Cape Verde * Ribeira Grande (stream), a stream on the island of Santo Antão * Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, a town on the island of Santo Antão * Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde (municipality), a municip ...

and 20 km north of the island capital

Porto Novo , , ; ; ; also known as Hogbonu and Ajashe) is the capital and second-largest city of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people. In 1863, following British bombardment, Porto-Novo accepted French ...

. It is the seat of

municipality. Ponta do Sol 2

Ponta do Sol is divided into the neighbourhoods Casinhas, Cavouquinho das Tintas, Chã de Cemitério, Chã de Ponta do Sol, Lombinho, Lombo da Cruz, Lombo de Paço, Os Órgãos, Ponta do Sol and Ribeira da Ponta do Sol. Ponta do Sol takes its name from the nearby headland

Ponta do Sol Ponta do Sol (; ) is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 8,862, in an area of . History The settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly after the discovery of t ...

, the northernmost point of Cape Verde. The former name ''Vila Dona María Pia'' refers to

Maria Pia of Savoy Dona Maria Pia (16 October 1847 – 5 July 1911) was by birth an Italian princess of the House of Savoy and by marriage Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Luís I of Portugal. On the day of her baptism, Pope Pius IX, her godfather, gave her ...

, queen of Portugal between 1862 and 1889. Urban development of Ponta do Sol started in the 1880s; before, it was a small fishing village.Revitalização dos patrimónios arquitectónicos da cidade da Ponta do Sol
António Carlos Oliveira Lopes, 2012 The church ''Nossa Senhora do Livramento'' was built in 1894. There is a Jewish cemetery in the town.

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Jorge Ferreira Chaves Jorge Ferreira Chaves (22 February 1920 – 22 August 1981) was a Portuguese architect. Some authors may refer to him as "Jorge Chaves" or simply "Chaves". He was one of the architects responsible, in the latter part of the 1940s, for the esta ...

, Portuguese architect * Raul Pires Ferreira Chaves, Portuguese worker

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* {{Subdivisions of Santo Antão, Cape Verde Cities in Cape Verde Ribeira Grande Municipality Municipal seats in Cape Verde Geography of Santo Antão, Cape Verde Populated coastal places in Cape Verde 1584 establishments in the Portuguese Empire Ports and harbours of Cape Verde Populated places established in 1584

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