Assomada
Assomada is a city on the Sotavento (leeward) island of Santiago in Cape Verde.
Assomada is a city on the Sotavento (leeward) island of Santiago in Cape Verde. Since 1912, it is the seat of the municipality of Santa Catarina, which comprises the central western part and much of the interior of the island. It is the largest city in that region.
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Worth seeing in and around Assomada
2 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.
- 01Museu da Tabanka
The Museu da Tabanca is a museum in the town Chã de Tanque in the western part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. It is dedicated to local culture, including tabanka music.
0 m · music-related museum in Santiago, Cape Verde · Wikipedia - 02Universidade de Santiago
The Universidade de Santiago is a private university in Cape Verde. It was established in November 2008.
700 m · private university in Cape Verde (IAU-018563) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Assomada
- Airports
- Nelson Mandela (RAI), 26 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 143 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 198 km
- Rabil → AssomadaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Espargos → Assomada200 km · quickest by road, 60h 57m · $23–32
- São Pedro → AssomadaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- 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 Assomada
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 Assomada. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe port in Praia has direct and indirect connections by ferry to other islands.
- Get aroundMost of the buses ("aluguer") leave from the "central minibus station" at the bottom of the steps that lead from Parque 5 de Julho to the Old Town in Plato besides the market called Sucupira.
- Get aroundAlso of note, the minibuses often have destinations in decals on their sides (e.g.
From Wikivoyage: Santiago (Cape Verde), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2022-11.
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If you know how people move in Assomada – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Assomada
- São Salvador do Mundomunicipality on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde4 km
- Picostown in Cape Verde3.9 km
- Boa Entradavillage in Cape Verde2.1 km
- Achada Bananavillage in Cape Verde3.3 km
- Chã de Tanquesettlement in Santiago, Cape Verde3.8 km
- Covão Grandesettlement in Santiago, Cape Verde2 km