Home Senegal Gorée
  • Gorée

  • Gorée

    Gorée is a small island sheltered by the Cap-Vert Peninsula. Now part of the city of Dakar, it was a minor port and site of European settlement along the coast. Being almost devoid of drinking water, the island was not settled before the arrival of Europeans. The Portuguese were the first to establish a presence on Gorée in 1450 AD, where they built a small stone chapel and used land as a cemetery. The island was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Island of Gorée.
    World Heritage Site
    Gorée
    by Ji-Elle, Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons
    Gorée
    By Remi Jouan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Gorée
    By jbdodane, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 0 m

    Humidity: %
    Wind:
    Powered by: OpenWeatherMap
    Flag of Senegal

    Gorée

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1978

    city

    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Senegal

    Dakar Region

    history_logo

    15th Century AD

    Portuguese

    Mixed

    history_logo

    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

  • 3.7 Average Based on 15 Reviews
  • Current Rating
    Five
    5
    Four
    4
    Three
    3
    Two
    2
    One
    1
    Your Rating
  • Add Your Comment
  • The published comments do not represent the opinion of our site, but express the opinion of their publishers.