Nampula
Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique.
Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique. With a population of 743,125, it is the third-largest city in Mozambique after Maputo and Matola. The city is located in the interior of Nampula Province, approximately 200 kilometers from the coast and is surrounded by plains and rocky outcrops. The city is a major regional centre for the entire Northern region of Mozambique, as well as parts of Central Mozambique and border areas of Malawi and Tanzania.
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Worth seeing in and around Nampula
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral
The Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral also called Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, is a religious building of the Catholic Church which is in Nampula, a town in the African country of Mozambique, which functions as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Nampula. The cathedral was inaugurated in 1956 by the then President of the Republic of Portugal, Francisco Craveiro Lopes when the territory was under Portuguese rule.
600 m · Catholic cathedral in Nampula, Mozambique · Wikipedia - 02Lúrio University
Lúrio University, also known as UniLúrio, is a public university in Nampula Province, Mozambique. Established by decree on 26 December 2006, the university has since grown to comprise seven faculties.
4.9 km · university in Mozambique · Wikipedia - 03Estádio do Nampula
Estádio 25 de Junho is a multi-purpose stadium in Nampula, Mozambique. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of the Clube Ferroviário de Nampula.
1.1 km · stadium in Nampula, Mozambique · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral
- 02Museu Nacional de Etnologia
Nice collection of artefacts including masks and musical instruments.
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Where to eat
The Copacabana in front of the Tropical Hotel is recommended. Good seafood. Cold beer and wines. Picturesque settings. You'll find your NGO guys/ladies from all over the world there! The Restaurant of Tropical Hotel is also good, but less choices than the Copacabana. Avoid the Girassol hotel restaurant at all costs! The food there is warmed up and it's a festival of soggy fries in glassy sauces.
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Getting to Nampula
- Airports
- Nampula (APL), 2 km
- Stations
- Nampula Airport, 2 km
- Tete → Nampula619 km · quickest by air, 4h 18m · $150–220
- Beira → Nampula705 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · $160–240
- Blantyre → Nampula462 km · quickest by air, 7h 11m · $210–320
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Nampula
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nampula. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOnce in Cuamba, minibuses depart from the train station to Mandimba (on the Malawi border), Lichinga and others.
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