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Cape Verde, Praia, Santiago Island

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Sunday morning Soccer game
Monument of Diego Gomas looking out to sea in the morning hours.
The Presidential Palace was constructed around 1894 in neoclassical style as a residence of the Portuguese governor of Cape Verde. After Cape Verde gained independence in 1975, it became the Presidential Palace.
A guard at the entrance to the Presidential Palace.
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Interesting how the trees on both sides of the walkway grew over to form a sheltered walkway and cut flat on top.
Local advertisement for Coke
A local shop closed but in the window we can see all the items made locally. Too bad it wasnoit open as we could have cleaned out the shop if only they knew we were in town.
Name and telephone number of the shop.
It is Sunday morning early and we are the only persons out walking around.
Christmas is just a few weeks away and we find some decorations.
Pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace
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Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.  Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau. He was assassinated on 20 January 1973, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence.
This is a Museum dedicated to Cabral. His face was painted on the side of the building in the previous photo.  He was deeply influenced by Marxism, becoming an inspiration to revolutionary socialists and national independence movements worldwide.
The bell tower is at the rear of the The Pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace church across the street from the Amilcar Cabral Museum
A plaza area

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