Just off the southern tip of Mozambique Island is this tiny island, which is completely covered by an eponymous fort dating from 1695. You can walk across the channel at low tide (watch that you don’t get stuck out there) but will need to clamber up over the walls, as the ladder into the fort is missing.
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This imposing terracotta edifice – the former governor’s residence and now a museum – dates from 1610. The interior hosts the recently refurbished Museu…
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The island’s northern end is dominated by the massive Fort of São Sebastião – the oldest complete fort still standing in sub-Saharan Africa and, arguably,…
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This tiny island (known locally as Watólofu) is about 5km east of Mozambique Island. It has a lighthouse that was built during the 1870s, and is today run…
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Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte
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In the shadow of the São Sebastião fort on the island’s northern tip is the Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte, built in 1522 and considered to be the…
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Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remedios
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This isolated church, tucked behind the mangroves close to the shore, retains a rare beauty enhanced by both its age and its setting. Built on the orders…
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About 2km south of Goa Island is Sena Island. It takes its name from its location along the old sea route aiming towards the trading centre of Sena, on…
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Looking like a cross between Shakespeare and Cervantes, this statue of Portuguese poet Luís de Camões stands sentinel over a small triangular park by the…
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With a distinctive white facade, this church is best viewed while sitting at a table in the Café-Bar Áncora d’Ouro opposite. The original church was…
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At the southern end of the island, overlooking Makuti Town and the fishing port, is the large (and no longer used) Church of Santo António. Nearby is a…
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Mozambique Island is 90% Muslim, a fact enshrined in this impressive green mosque that stands beside the busy fish market in Makuti Town.
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This handsome neoclassical edifice dates from 1633, when it was founded by the Capuchins. The neoclassicism is the result of a early-19th-century refurb.
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For a authentic look at Makuti Town, the African settlement that occupies the southern half of Mozambique Island, come to the heaving fish market in front…
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Second only to the Fort of São Sebastião in size and grandiosity, this imposing neoclassical hospital was built by the Portuguese in 1877. For a time it…
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Incredible diversity exists on tiny Mozambique Island, a fact reflected in this Hindu temple located next to the main market a stone's throw from a mosque…
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The great Portuguese poet Luís de Camões resided briefly on Mozambique Island in the late 1560s, allegedly in this house. Although not open to the public,…