Tarrafal

Lat: 15.278558333333000, Long: -23.751502777778000

Tarrafal

Santiago Island, Cape Verde

Historical Background and Urbanism

This small town is located on the northwest coast of Santiago Island. Its central area has a geometrical design with two main parallel streets roughly aligned east/west. They begin at a rectangular square with the west-facing church in the centre and town hall on the north side (as occurs in the 18th century plan of Porto Covo in Portugal’s Alentejo and similar to the plan for Novo Redondo/Sumbe in Angola). A 19th century French map surveyed and drawn in 1890-1891, the Vue générale de la baie et Ville de Tarrafal (held by the Geographical Society of Lisbon), shows the town with a more rigorous schematic grid, albeit with more streets than it has at present.

Religious Architecture

Equipment and Infrastructures

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