Palacio do Povo

Across from the Cathedral. Cannot Go In.

It's where the former Portuguese governors lived and worked. Well kept, you cannot go in and they discourage photos. Nice old building.

Pink, big, don't take photos

Best maintained building in Sao Tome with nice cars. Not allowed to take photos apparently. Look at the cars and wonder why the money is not spent on the poor.

trying to imagine the past

Whatever one can say about Portugal's colonial past, one has to admit that they left some great architecture behind. As before on my trip to Cape Verde Islands here again on São Tomé one encounters an...

View from the Outside

There doesn't seem to much going on at the Presidential Palace. It is well maintained in a bright pink. No one seems to mind if you take pictures. There are not guards, no signs of life. It's wort...

in front of the cathedral

There is no allowed to take pictures, during my stay a couple of policemen take care of this. Pink palace for the sao tome president, beatibul building.