CLUES
- This UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the Seven Wonders of Portuguese Origin in the World.
- Its port was a stopping place for explorers Vasco da Gama in 1497, on his way to India, and Christopher Columbus in 1498, on his third voyage to the Americas.
- Its position at the crossroads of civilizations gave rise to the first fully fledged mixed-race Creole society.
- Once a key port in the slave trade, it has preserved a “pillory monument” that commemorates this sad history.
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