{"id":1093,"date":"2020-08-23T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipc.innovatmedialab.com\/?post_type=monumento-e-sitio&p=1093"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:51:09","slug":"centro-historico-da-praia","status":"publish","type":"monumento-e-sitio","link":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/monumento-e-sitio\/centro-historico-da-praia\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Center of Praia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Historic Center of Praia (Plateau) corresponds to a primitive population center, with 28 hectares of surface, located on the naturally fortified plateau of Santa Maria da Vit\u00f3ria, overlooking the port of the same name, through which the city emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was immediately configured as a strategic military site, allowing the control of maritime and commercial activities throughout the area. The site currently houses a significant set of Cabo Verdean colonial past, consisting of numerous administrative, military and religious infrastructures, significantly preserved and confined in this small space.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tler mais\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n

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Com o decl\u00ednio da Capitania de Alcatraz, a qual pertencia, a Praia de Santa Maria, como era ent\u00e3o designada, desenvolveu-se na segunda d\u00e9cada do s\u00e9culo XVI,\u00a0passando a ser sede da Capitania do Norte. Ascendeu igualmente \u00e0 categoria de vila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, it also benefited from the decline of the city of Ribeira Grande to become, over time, due to its privileged location, its large port, its salubriousness and its better conditions of defence against pirate and corsair attacks, the main population centre of the province of Cabo Verde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the mid-16th century, the village was insignificant, with houses and straw huts predominating around the Church of Nossa Senhora da Gra\u00e7a. Gradually, Praia of Santa Maria absorbed all the technocracy initially set up in the then tottering Ribeira Grande. In the 14th of August of 1612, Felipe II, ordered by charter that the governor or bishop would reside alternately in Praia, preluding the definitive transfer of the administrative and ecclesiastical headquarters to this village. However, the confirmation of Praia as the true capital of the Province of Cabo Verde, would only be a reality in 1770.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the change of the capital, Praia remained devoid of infrastructures consistent with the condition it boasted. Thus, the central and local governments made efforts to plan the urban development of the town, with streets, open areas and squares, construction of pertinent infrastructures such as the pier, the customs office, the military barracks, the hospital and the Town Hall, among others. And in terms of hygiene, drying up the main swamps that flanked the town, bearing in mind the serious damage they caused to public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Em 28 de abril de 1855, o governador Arrobas fixou definitivamente a capital da Prov\u00edncia, na vila da Praia, colocando assim termo \u00e0 “eterna discuss\u00e3o” em torno da mudan\u00e7a da capital para outras paragens, em virtude da insalubridade que a vila apresentava em \u00e9poca das\u00a0chuvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1858, the town of Praia was ascended to the condition of city, and later in 1975, with the independence of the country, it became Capital of Cabo Verde. In May 2013 it was elevated to the category of National Heritage, by resolution No. 67\/2013 of 17 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tler menos\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O Centro Hist\u00f3rico da Praia (Plateau) corresponde a um primitivo n\u00facleo populacional, com 28 <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":701,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[13,30],"class_list":["post-1093","monumento-e-sitio","type-monumento-e-sitio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-centro","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento-e-sitio\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento-e-sitio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/monumento-e-sitio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipc.cv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}