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Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Over the years, generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectuals have been the ultimate expression of Cape Verdean art and thought. Fragments of the lives of its inhabitants reveal the strength of its history, the beauty of its creativity and, above all, its resistance to the scourges of life in Mindelo, a meeting place for different nationalities.

Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Throughout the time generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectual people were the full expression of Cape Verdean art and way of thinking. Fragments of its inhabitants’ lives reveal the force of its history, the beauty of its creativity and, above all, the resistance against the scourge of life in Mindelo, a meeting point of various nationalities.