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Mozambique Island

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  • Man passes through Saint Sebastian Fortress gate. This gate is an example of the Manueline style, a late gothic style spread during Portuguese Discoveries
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  • People catching clams and mussels during low tide in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Children drive their bycicles in Arches Street, one of the most beautiful streets in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Some people gather at sunset in a square near Ilha de Mozambique Town Hall. Few are the builidings that have been recovered in this Unesco World Heritage Site
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  • Some sisters and a few inhabitants of Ilha de Mozambique pray in Mercy Church. Most the islands residents are muslims
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  • The only hidu person in Ilha de Mozambique takes care of the temple. The majority of people in the island are muslims
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  • Boy catching clams and mussels during low tide in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Woman brooming the street in front of Mercy Church in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Sourcerer from Makua tribe performs a traditional dance where he sticks needles in his forehead
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  • Fishermen arriving at the beach that serves as Ilha de Mozambique fishing harbour
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  • Children in front of Ilha de Mozambique Court
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  • View of an alley in the Macuti Town in Ilha de Mozambique. Macuti Town is where most of islands population live and the its sanitary system is non-existent.
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  • Makua women wearing traditional mussiro facial masks. Makua tribe is the predominant ethnic group in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Aerial view of Nacalas coast, near Ilha de Mozambique. This coast boasts endless empty beaches and pristine landscape
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  • Silhoueted man drives a canoe at sunset, in the fishing harbour in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Fisherman compose nets near Saint Anthony Chapel in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Girl from Makua tribe poses by Ilha de Mozambique Great Mosque wall
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  • Colonial portuguese standard in Ilha de Mozambique. This standard was built in the 20th century in the fascist New State style that dominated portuguese architecture during dictatorship
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  • People passing by Our Lady of Health Church in Ilha de Mozambique. This church is build on the separation betweeen colonial Stone City and Macuti Town, where most of islands population lives
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  • Golden altar in Our Lady of Health Church in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Boy walks near the statue of portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on the Square where is also build Saint Paul Palace-Museum . Vasco da Gama was Mozambique discoverer
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  • A hand points a house with hindu door in a street in the Stone City in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Fisherman leaves behind Saint Sebastian Fortress in Ilha de Mozambique / On the left side is seen Our Lady of the Bastion Church, the oldest european builiding in South Hemisphere
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  • Young basket carrier pictured in the beach that serves as Ilha de Mozambique fishing harbour.
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  • Fisherman negotiate and carry the product of a day work, in the beach that serves as Ilha de Mozambique fishing harbour
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  • Aerial view of Ilha de Mozambique. The island has about two and a half kilometers lenght and six hundred meters wide. The northern part is where the portuguese colonial buildings are and it's called Stone City. The central and south part of the island is the Macuti Town, the area where most of the people lives.
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  • Man walks with his bike in the Square where is the statue of Luiz de Camoes. Camoes was one of the greatest poets in portuguese history and lived in XVI Century. It is believed that he lived in a house in this Square.
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  • Old canons are part of what is left inside San Sebastian Fortress in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Women group performs tufo, Ilha de Mozambique traditional dance.
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  • Ilha de Mozambique fishing harbour seen through the windows of the Great Mosque minaret.
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  • View of Saint Paul Palace Museum interior from the choir balcony
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  • Saint Anthony statue in one of the rooms of the Saint Paul Palace Museum
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  • Men praying in the Great Mosque in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Man and children walking in a colourful street in Stone Town, the colonial part of Ilha de Mozambique
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  • People passing by the facade of Ilha de Mozambique hospital
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  • Tipical dhow boat passes near the old pier in Ilha de Mozambique while a woman cuts the grass
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  • Tourists visiting the Fortress of Saint Sebastian where there is a ruined Church, an ancient hospital and a cistern that was still in use not long ago.
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  • Children playing on the beach in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Two dhows near Saint Sebastian Fortress walls. The Fort was build by the Portuguese in XVI Century
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  • Fishermen arriving seen through one of the Great Mosque windows in Ilha de Mozambique
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  • Men praying in a mosque in the Macuti City, the part of Ilha de Mozambique where lives most of the inhabitants
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  • Man seated on the main square garden ornated by staues and a music stand in Ilha de Mozambique
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