Liceu Velho is a building in the eastern part of the
city centre
A city centre, also known as an urban core, is the Commerce, commercial, Culture, cultural and often the historical, Politics, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely e ...
of
,
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
. It is situated on Praça Dr. Duarte Silva,
[Revitalização como mecánismo de protecção do património arquitectónico: uma proposta para Mindelo]
Valdemar Jorge de Almeida Fortes Martins, 2014, p. 30-31 between Avenida Fernando Ferreira Fortes and Rua Franz Fanon, east of the
Palácio do Povo
The Palácio do Povo (People's Palace), formerly the Palácio do Governo (Government Palace), is a public building in the city centre of Mindelo in Cape Verde. It is situated at the eastern end of Rua Libertadores de África (formerly Rua Lisboa).< ...
. Since 2008, it houses the art school M_EIA (''Mindelo Escola Internacional de Arte''), officially ''Instituto Universitário de Arte, Tecnologia e Cultura''. It is also one of the locations of the School of Business and Governance (ENG) of the
University of Cape Verde
The University of Cape Verde (, abbreviated "Uni-CV") is the only public university of Cape Verde. The main campus is in Palmarejo, Cape Verde, Palmarejo, Praia, but there are also institutes in Mindelo, Assomada and São Jorge dos Órgãos. It ha ...
.
History
Constructed between 1859 and 1873, the building was intended to serve as military barracks, the ''Quartel Militar''.
[Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de S. Vicente]
Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 53-54 It was a residence of the
Portuguese colonial governor of Cape Verde.
[Génese e desenvolvimento da cidade do Mindelo: a preservação de uma identidade]
Fred Yanick Fonseca Delgado In 1921 the ''
Liceu Nacional Infante Dom Henrique'' was installed in the building, making Mindelo the centre of education of Cape Verde.
[ The school was closed in 1937, and reopened the same year as ''Liceu ]Gil Eanes
Gil Eanes (or Eannes, in the old Portuguese spelling; ) was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer.
Biography
Gil Eanes was born in Lagos in 1395. Little is known about his personal life prior to his role in the Portuguese Age of Dis ...
''.[ After 1968, when this school moved to a new building, it housed the '' Escola Preparatória Jorge Barbosa''.][
]
Notable students
*Orlanda Amarílis
Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis (8 October 1924 – 1 February 2014) was a Cape Verdean writer. She is considered to be a noteworthy writer of fiction whose main literary themes include perspective ...
, writer
*Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Lopes Cabral (; – ) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist ...
, independence activist
See also
* Education in Cape Verde
* List of buildings and structures in São Vicente, Cape Verde
References
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Buildings and structures in Mindelo
Schools in Cape Verde
Education in São Vicente, Cape Verde
1920s establishments in Cape Verde
Portuguese colonial architecture in Cape Verde