Visitors are charmed by the narrow streets and shady squares of Mocambi-que Island, a remote town that is part of northern Mozambique and sits, just off the coast, in the Indian Ocean. With several hundred elegant and brightly-coloured stone houses built by Portuguese colonists centuries ago, when Mocambique was their capital, it has some of Africa's most striking architecture. A whitewashed church, one of 14 old religious houses, may be the oldest still standing in the southern hemisphere. The town is a UNESCO world heritage site. A 16th-century Portuguese fort stares out over it all.
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