Editing Praia (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:Praia-Palácio Presidencial (1) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Presidential Palace of Cape Verde]].]]
[[File:Farol D. Maria Pia-2.jpg|thumb|right|[[Farol de D. Maria Pia]].]]
There is the ''Museu Etnográfico'' (Ethnographic Museum), which was founded in 1997. Some of the oldest buildings in Praia are Jaime Mota Barracks ([[Quartel Jaime Mota]]) dating from 1826. Since 2016, the historic centre of Praia is on the tentative list of [[World Heritage Site]]s.<ref name=unesco/>

Landmarks in the colonial city center include Albuquerque Square (named after the colonial governor of the mid 19th century, [[Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque]]), the old city hall built in the 1920s, the [[Palácio Presidencial|Presidential Palace]], which was constructed in the end of the 19th century to house the Portuguese governor and the ''[[Monumento de Diogo Gomes]]'', named after the Portuguese [[navigator]] who discovered the island of Santiago in 1460.