Liceu Velho is a building in the eastern part of the

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Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2 ...

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

References

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Notable students

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