Inscribed :1991 Criteria: C (iv) (vi)

Justification for Inscription:
Report of the 15th Session of the Committee

Brief description:
The fortified city of Mozambique is located on this island, which was a former Portuguese trading post on the route to India. Its astonishing architectural unity is due to the consistent use, since the 16th century, of the same building techniques, the same building materials (stone or macuti) and decorative principles.

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