City Tour, Praia & Cidade Velha

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4 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: German and 4 more

This tour is unique, because you will visite the Cidade Velha (old city)considered a world heritage site, where you will visite the royal Fortress of Sao Filipe, the Cathedral, the Rua Banana which is the first urbanized street in cabo verde, visite to the church of Nossa Senhora do Rosario, all those historical monuments will make this tour, the best tour is cabo verde, but before you will visite the plateau vegetable market, which is a very typical cape verde market where the workers are mostly womens, you will also visite to the colonial square Alexandre Alburquerque de Almeida,

What's Included

Private transportation

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

You can get a taxi towards Plateau and wait at Alexandre Alburquerque square.

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
  • 1
    Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosario

    this church is the oldest building in cape verde, it is a church where many navigators visited in the sec. XV, like Cristovao Colombu, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alves Cabral, and also the creator of the evulutionist theory Charles Darwin, there are old tombs there, today, and, it is a rehabilitated and restored church, where the local population goes to pray on Sundays.

    20 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 2
    Mercado de Sucupira

    in this market there is a wide variety of products, from food products to clothing, souvenirs, and electronics, there you can shop, comb your hair and also have lunch

    30 minutes • Admission ticket free
  • 3
    Fortaleza Real de San Felipe

    this place was created to defend the city from attacks, when visiting this place you will be able to observe a water fountain, cannons used in the war against pirates, and also the prisons inside the fortress

    35 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 4
    Se Catedral

    In this place we will see the ruins of the Cathedral, it has the stones that were brought from Portugal in the slave trade, we will also see the old tombs inside the Cathedral.

    15 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 5
    Praca Alexandre Albuquerque

    here is the colonial square alexandre albuquerque where it is surrounded by important institutions, you will be able to see statues, churches, banks, palace of justice,

    15 minutes • Admission ticket free
  • 6
    Mercado Municipal di Praia

    this market is very colorful in the way people dress and also because the vegetables fill the market with their different colors, you can buy the fruits, you can negotiate with the traders.

    25 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
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