Island of Luanda, Luanda, Angola
The Island of the Cape, known as Ilha de Luanda, is a coastal belt composed of a narrow 7 km long tongue that separates the city of Luanda from the Atlantic Ocean and originated the Luanda Bay. It is connected to the city by a small isthmus in the Fortress of São Miguel.
It is par excellence the place of leisure of the luandenses, for its varied offer of bars, restaurants by the sea, discos, hotels, street markets, beaches and marina.
On the island is located the Church of Our Lady of the Cape, the oldest in Angola, founded in 1575 by the forty Portuguese who lived on the island before the change of the city of Luanda to the mainland, made by Paulo Dias de Novais.
Luanda Island, is part of Ingombota municipality, Luanda province, and has three communes: Ingombota, Kinanga and Ilha do Cabo.
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