Cultural Properties of Mozambique explained

The Cultural Properties of Mozambique are protected and promoted in accordance with Law 10/88 of 1988 concerning tangible and intangible properties relating to the cultural heritage of Mozambique (bens materiais e imateriais do património cultural moçambicano).^{[1] [2]} Article 3 defines eight classes of movable cultural properties and four classes of immovable cultural properties: monuments (monumentos), groups of buildings (conjuntos os grupos de edifícios), sites (locais ou sitios), and natural elements (elementos naturais); those classed as património cultural are of exceptional significance and are afforded special state protection.^[1]

Cultural Patrimony

Cultural properties classed as património cultural include the following:^{[3] [4]}

Site	Official name	Location	Date	Comments	Coordinates	Designation	Image
Casa dos Azulejos	idem			first town hall in city from 1901-1947		Monumento
	id.	Maputo				Monumento
	id.	Maputo	late C19	Pre fabricated in Belgium by Société des Forges d’Aiseau to patents by Joseph Danly		Monumento
	Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Conceição	Maputo	late C18			Monumento
Pott Building	Prédio Pott	Maputo		in ruins		Monumento
National Press	Imprensa Nacional	Maputo	1887	Ngungunyane imprisoned inside		Monumento
	Estação Central dos Caminhos de Ferro	Maputo	1908	opened in 1910; replacement for that inaugurated by Paul Kruger in 1895		Monumento
World War I Monument	Monumento da I Guerra Mundial	Maputo				Monumento
	Estátua de Eduardo Mondlane	Maputo		first president of the Mozambican Liberation Front		Monumento
	Estátua de Samora Moisés Machel	Maputo		president of the Mozambican Liberation Front		Monumento
Mozambican Heroes Square	Praça dos Heróis Moçambicanos	Maputo				Monumento

See also

• History of Mozambique
• Culture of Mozambique
• List of heritage registers
• UNESCO General History of Africa

External links

• Select cultural properties
• Select historic sites
• Museums of Mozambique
• Pedro Guedes (2010). Iron in building, 1750 - 1855: Innovation and cultural resistance PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion Classics, The University of Queensland.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lei no. 10/88 . Law no 10/88 . Portuguese . . 8 May 2012.
2. Web site: Portal de Legislação Ambiental de Moçambique . Portal of Environmental Legislation of Mozambique . Portuguese . Ministry of Coordination of Environmental Affairs . 8 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120727030844/http://www.legisambiente.gov.mz/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=30 . 27 July 2012 .
3. Web site: Patrimónios Culturais . Items of Cultural Patrimony . Portuguese . Ministry of Culture . 8 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150815045307/http://www.micult.gov.mz/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=20&Itemid=19 . 15 August 2015 .
4. Web site: Alguns Locais Historicos do Património Cultural Moçambicano . Some Historic Sites of Mozambique's Cultural Patrimony . Portuguese . Ministry of Culture . 8 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160125182915/http://www.micult.gov.mz/images/stories/doc_pdf/LOCAIS_HISTORICOS%20_DO_PATRIMONIO_CULTURAL.pdf . 25 January 2016 .