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Stone Town of Zanzibar

French: La ville de pierre de Zanzibar
The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a World Heritage site in Tanzania defined by the UNESCO in 2000 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.

It might be in our monthly survey.

"The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa. It retains its urban fabric and townscape virtually intact and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture, which has brought together and homogenized disparate elements of the cultures of Africa, the Arab region, India, and Europe over more than a millennium."
Copyright © 1992 2014 UNESCO/World Heritage Centre. All rights reserved."

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