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  • The dryness is one of the most important problems in the archipelago and  for a flat island like Maio the lack of water is even more important as there are almost no mountains to retain the water from the clouds. Maio is an arid island so agriculture does not have many chances. Goats are the animals who most easily adapt to the rocky and dry Maio island and can be seen throughout the island. The Sahara wind brings sand in some seasons of the year.
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  • Goats are the animals who most easily adapt to the rocky and dry Maio island and can be seen throughout the island.
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  • Young people playing football in Vila do Maio beach. The beach is located  just in front of the capital village and is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Still little known to tourists, the island can become has great touristical potential with its pristine yellow sand beaches and turquoise water.
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  • Vila do Maio beach located  just in front of the capital village is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Fishing boats go out every day from the traditional pier. Turquoise water and yellow sand are important atributes to make Maio island a tourist destination for the years to come.
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  • Girl  on Vila do Maio beach. This beach is  located  just in front of the capital village and is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Fishing boats go out every day from the traditional pier. Turquoise water and yellow sand are important atributes to make Maio island a tourist destination for the years to come.
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  • Vila do Maio beach located  just in front of the capital village is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Turquoise water and yellow sand are important atributes to make Maio island a tourist destination for the years to come.
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  • The dryness is one of the most important problems in Cape Verde archipelago and  for a flat island like Maio the lack of water is even more important as there are almost no mountains to retain the water from the clouds. Maio is an arid island so agriculture does not have many chances.
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  • The roads in Maio Island are most of them unpaved.  The few paved ones are made of stone . The dryness is one of the most important problems in the archipelago and  for a flat island like Maio the lack of water is even more importante as there are almost no mountains to retain the water from the clouds.
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  • Young people playing football in Vila do Maio beach. The beach is located  just in front of the capital village and is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Still little known to tourists, the island can become has great touristical potential with its pristine yellow sand beaches and turquoise water.
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  • Children swim and have fun in Vila do Maio beach. The beach is located  just in front of the capital village and is the most accessible and, at the sime time, the most famous postcard image from Maio island. Fishing boats go out every day from the traditional pier. Turquoise water and yellow sand are important atributes to make Maio island a tourist destination for the years to come.
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  • Young women walking on Vila do Maio (Maio's Village) narrow streets. Usually buidings are colourfully painted and people are very friendly to visitors. Maio island has about 7.000 inhabitants and is one of the less-known Cape Verdean islands.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Young women walking on Vila do Maio (Maio's Village) narrow streets. Usually buidings are colourfully painted and people are very friendly to visitors. Maio island has about 7.000 inhabitants and is one of the less-known Cape Verdean islands.
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  • The dunes in the northern part of Maio island form a delicate ecosystem. Praia Real (Royal beach) is said to be a shark dormitory.
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  • As in most of Cape verde archipelago people are very friendly and always available to help. With a circular stone road, the island has many unpaved paths that can difficult an outsider to move around without getting lost sometimes.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Ribeira de Dom Joao beach is one of the many secluded beaches in Maio island. Accessible only in a four-wheel-drive or by walking, the beach is divided in two bays with emerald water and yellow sand.
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  • Shy girl still wet from swimming in Vila do Maio beach. The beach is located  just in front of the capital village and is the most accessible and, at the sime time,  most famous postcard image from Maio island. Fishing boats go out every day from the traditional pier.
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  • With its vast sand extension, Ponta Preta beach can be seen from the plane when approaching the small airport. This beach is close to Vila do Maio (Maio Village) but locals always warn tourists about the dangerous stream.
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  • Some children play on the main street of Barranco Velho where there are some examples of simple popular architecture. As in most of Cape Verde archipelago, facades are colorfully painted.
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  • A woman and a small boy on a street in Vila do Maio (Maio Village). Inside the van a political banner from Carlos Veiga,  the presidential candidate who lose the election for the second time.
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  • On a wood hoven the baker Afonso makes bread to sell in Vila do Maio (Maio Village).
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  • By the end of the end of the day people come to the seaside street to watch the sunset.
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  • By the end of the end of the day people come to the seaside street to watch the sunset. That is also the time for lovers.
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  • Children on Vila do Maio (Maio's Village)streets, playing with improvised Carnival masks.
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  • Man on the post office window in Vila do Maio (Maio's Village).  Most of the facades are painted with bright colors.
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  • Boy walking in front of a kindergarden in Vila do Maio (Maio's village). Cape Verde population is very young and the country is known for the good use of international aid, specially in sending its students  abroad on scholarship programs.
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  • With its vast sand extension, Ponta Preta beach can be seen from the plane when approaching the small airport. This beach is close to Vila do Maio (Maio Village) but locals always warn tourists about the dangerous stream.
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  • The fishing village of Calheta has a bay where fisherman keep their boats. The village has also some fine examples of simple popular architecture with colorfully painted houses.
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  • Girls treating their hair on the main street of Barranco Velho where there are some examples of simple popular architecture. As in most of Cape Verde archipelago, facades are colorfully painted.
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  • Children playing football on Vila do Maio (Maio's Village) streets. Cape Verde population is very young and the country is known for the good use of international aid, specially in sending its students  abroad on scholarship programs.
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  • Vila do Maio (Maio's Village) church. Most of Cape Verdeans are catholics.
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  • Barranco Velho é uma das pequenas povoações dispersas pela árida Ilha do Maio. Esta aldeia está dividida em duas partes, uma alta e uma baixa, situando-se cada uma delas de um lado de um pequeno vale.
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  • A Praia da Vila é a mais acessível da Ilha do Maio. Durante todo o dia podem-se ver crianças mergulhando nas suas àguas côr de esmeralda.
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  • Crianças brincam nas ruas da Vila do Maio, ostentando máscaras de Carnaval improvisadas.
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  • A child sleeps held by his father while waiting for the ferry from Brava to Fogo island. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • A bougainvillaea tree marks the fence of a little farm in Brava island. With a mild climate, the smaller of Cape Verde islands has the nickname of "flower island".
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  • Passengers load their luggage in the feery boat. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • An old lady is helped to descend from the ferry boat. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • A view of Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island situated on a cooler plateau about 600 metres from sea level. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • A coastal guard checks papers while the ferry is unloaded. Sometimes Brava island gets isolated for several days when sea conditions doesn't allow ships to approach Furna's harbour, the only one in the island.
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  • Boys taking care of a bougainvillaea tree. With a mild climate, the smaller of Cape Verde islands has the nickname of "flower island".
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  • As in neighbour Fogo island, in Brava one can find many people with light skin and eyes. Brava and Fogo inhabitants are targeted by other islands population that joke saying "they think they are white people"
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  • A child plays in Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island the most inacessible of the nine inhabited islands of Cape Verde archipelago.
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  • A liberian football player portrayed in the ferry from Brava to Fogo island. After fled his homeland Liberia due to civil war more than 15 years ago this refugee lived in Gambia and Guinea Conakri before going to Cape Verde to play football as a way of earning his life.
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  • Children play in Furna where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • In Furna people gather on the top of a rock fishing. Furna is the village where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • Girls chat on the way to a water spring on Brava's east coast. Nearby, Furna is the place where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • One hiker waives in the top of a hill on Brava's east coast. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • One of the many stone ways that lead to abandoned villages in the east coast of Brava island.
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  • A dog sitting on a wall and boys walking in a cobblestone road are a common sight in Brava island, a place where the pace of time has always been slow.
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  • Faja da Agua is a village with a magnificent setting on a bay. Nearby the inoperative airport remembers te remoteness of Brava island.
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  • On the way out from Nova Sintra a lookout with a cross marks the end of the town center on the road the continues to Furna, the place where is located the only harbour that serves the island when sea conditions allows ships to navigate.
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  • One hiker walks in the ancient path used by sheperds in the direction of Faja da Agua village. On the background massive Fogo island is omnipresent with its 2829 metres vulcano.
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  • A small village hanging on the top of a cliff. Brava island is very hilly featuring high cliffs and deep valleys. On the distance the Secos islets can be seen.
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  • A girl walks on a street in Nova Sintra, Brava island capital village. This village is a gem of simple colonial architecture featuring humble houses in a plateau about 600 metres from sea level.
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  • A couple kiss in Eugenio Tavares square which is the center of  Nova Sintra and it's where its population converge. Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture ..
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  • Eugenio Tavares square is the center of  Nova Sintra and it's where its population converge. Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture .
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  • Know as "the flower island" Brava  has in its capital village Nova Sintra a gem of simple colonial architecture and its streets are arborized with many kinds of trees like these fig trees.
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  • A franciscan monk passes in a street in Nova Sintra, the capital village of Brava island.
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  • Brava's coast is very scenic featuring many bays and cliffs.
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  • The portrait of a young shepperd  in the abandoned village of Vinagre in Brava's east coast. Vinagre is so called because of the acid fountain water that reminds vinegar. The young man is wearing a political t-shirt from one of the candidates for President.
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  • A shepperd waits for the cattle to refresh in the abandoned village of Vinagre in Brava's east coast. Vinagre is so called because of the acid fountain water that reminds vinegar.
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  • The steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua zigzags through a deep valley.
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  • A young girl holds a baby in a bar in Faja da Agua village. The average age of Cape Verde population is 23 years old
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  • A window in a colonial building in Brava's capital village Nova Sintra. This village is a gem of simple colonial architecture featuring humble houses in a plateau about 600 metres from sea level.
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  • Old men spend the day playing cards  or going to the few bars open in Nova Sintra.
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  • School boys coming from school in Nova Sintra. Capeverdian students wear uniform so that the rich and the poor look the same.
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  • In the steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua, the way passes in Lavadura village that reminds Machu Picchu for its setting among mountain peaks and for the number of stone walls.
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  • In the steep ancient path that sheperds used from Nova Sintra to Faja da Agua, the way passes in Lavadura village that reminds Machu Picchu for its setting among mountain peaks and for the number of stone walls.
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  • Sorriso (Smile) is the nickname of one of the characters better known by Bravas people. This adolescent is known to be a thieve and the population will always advise the tourist to be carefull.
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  • Passengers in the old ferry boat  that links the cosmopolitan island of Sao Vicente to the agricultural island of Santo Antao.
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  • Praia Grande (Big Beach) and an ancient volcano in the northeast coast can be seen from the highest point of Sao Vicente island, the Monte Verde (Green Mount).
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  • Fishermen in Sao Pedro beach. This beach can be seen during landing in Sao Vicente island  because the airport strip is located few meters away from the beach.
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  • Fishermen in Sao Pedro beach. This beach can be seen during landing in Sao Vicente island  because the airport strip is located few meters away from the beach.
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  • Boys playing in Tarrafal beach, the msot touristical place in Santiago island.
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  • Fishing boats at Tarrafal beach, the most touristical point in Santiago island.
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  • Tarrafal beach is the most touristical place in Santiago island and there ae projects to build hotels around it.
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  • Tarrafal beach is the most touristical place in Santiago island and there ae projects to build hotels around it.
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  • Some "rabelados" still inhabit the northern part of Santiago island. Originally the "rabelados" oposed the new catholic education imposed since 1941 by the Holy Spirit Congregation, which, is some cases, banned the traditional mix of catholic and traditional beliefs. They are still a symbol of resiliance and they try to keep their independance from the State.
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  • The twisted "Estrada da Corda" (Rope road" meanders through the deep valleys and cliffs in the northeast zone of Santo Antao island.
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  • The deep valleys in the northeast zone of Santo Antao island like the Pauls Valley, have a microclimate that makes it the only part of the archipelago where it rains regularly and where many vegetables and fruits grow.
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  • Fontainhas village in the north coast of Santo Antao is an extraordinary scenery. To go there it takes one hour, because distances are time measured in Santo Antao. The deep valleys in the northeast zone of Santo Antao island have a microclimate that makes it the only part of the archipelago where it rains regularly and where many vegetables and fruits grow.
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  • In a "trapiche" sugar cane is used to make a kind of firewater vey appreciated in Cape Verde called "grog". The best one is usually from Santo Antao island where it is better distilled.
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  • In a "trapiche" sugar cane is used to make a kind of firewater vey appreciated in Cape Verde called "grog". The best one is usually from Santo Antao island where it is better distilled.
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  • A horse waits outside a grocery store in one of the little villages in Paul Valley in the northeast zone of Santo Antao island. This area has a microclimate that makes it the only part of the archipelago where it rains regularly and where many vegetables and fruits grow.
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  • A woman carrying a bag on her head in a road sorrounded by sugar cane in the northeast zone of Santo Antao island. This area has a microclimate that makes it the only part of the archipelago where it rains regularly and where many vegetables and fruits grow.
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  • One tourist looks at Fogo island's volcano. This had its most recent eruption in 1995. Inside the massive caldera a little dispersed village survives due to the rich volcanic soil and its inhabitants grow vineyards and fruit trees.
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  • Sao Filipe, the  capital of Fogo island is one of the best examples of portuguese colonial architecture, maily its "sobrado" houses. The masters used to live on the top flor of these houses while the servants on the ground flor.
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  • Sao Filipe, the  capital of Fogo island is one of the best examples of portuguese colonial architecture, maily its "sobrado" houses. The masters used to live on the top flor of these houses while the servants on the ground flor.
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  • Sao Filipe, the  capital of Fogo island is one of the best examples of portuguese colonial architecture, maily its "sobrado" houses. The masters used to live on the top flor of these houses while the servants on the ground flor.
    CV-Fogo-SFilipe01.jpg
  • In Fogo Island there's lots of people with green eyes and fair skin supposedly descending from the french Duke of Montrond that lived there from 1870 on.
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  • Sao Filipe, the  capital of Fogo island is one of the best examples of portuguese colonial architecture, maily its "sobrado" houses. The masters used to live on the top flor of these houses while the servants on the ground flor.
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  • Sao Filipe Town Hall. The capital of Fogo island is one of the best examples of portuguese colonial architecture, maily its "sobrado" houses. The masters used to live on the top flor of these houses while the servants on the ground flor.
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