Vila Algarve
Vila Algarve is a residential house in the Mozambican capital Maputo. Built in 1934 and later protected as a listed building, the building housed the Portuguese secret police PIDE/DGS until the end of the Portuguese colonial period in Mozambique.Photo: Cornelius Kibelka, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: building in Maputo, Mozambique
- Also known as: “Villa Algarve”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Geology Museum and Palácio dos Casamentos.
Geology Museum
Museum
Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Geology Museum is situated 220 metres southwest of Vila Algarve.
Palácio dos Casamentos
Government office
Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palácio dos Casamentos is a government office, which is situated 280 metres southeast of Vila Algarve.
Natural History Museum of Mozambique
Museum
Photo: James and Alex BonTempo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Natural History Museum of Mozambique is situated 540 metres southwest of Vila Algarve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maputo.
Maputo
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maputo is the capital city of Mozambique. Buildings range from old colonial palaces to new high-rise constructions, but the dominant architecture consists of Stalinist-looking concrete-walled boxes, generally with badly eroded paint and rusty security bars.
Vila Algarve
- Categories: house, cultural heritage, building, and historic site
- Location: Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-25.97389° or 25° 58′ 26″ southLongitude
32.59097° or 32° 35′ 28″ eastOpen location code
5G6J2HGR+C9OpenStreetMap ID
way 242442134OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q17276617
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swahili—“Vila Algarve” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Vila Algarve”
- German: “Vila Algarve”
- Polish: “Vila Algarve”
- Portuguese: “Sede da PIDE-DGS em Lourenço Marques”
- Portuguese: “Vila Algarve”
- Russian: “Вилла Алгарви”
- Swahili: “Vila Algarve”
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