Where is goree

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About us. Special themes. Major programmes. For the Press. Help preserve sites now! Join the , Members. Search Advanced. By Properties. Cultural Criteria: i ii iii iv v vi Natural Criteria: vii viii ix x. Category Cultural Natural Mixed. All With videos With photo gallery. An estimated 20 million Africans passed through the Island between the mids and the mids. Ruled in succession by the Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, its architecture is characterized by the contrast between the grim slave-quarters and the elegant houses of the slave traders.

It is amazing that UNESCO should carry such unsupportable statements on its Web site — the inscription of Goree dates right back to and there is no objectively assessed nomination file or AB evaluation on file. However all the facts about the Atlantic slave trade and its geographic spread over time from Senegal round to Angola involving a number of European states, together with the likely maximum and minimum numbers involved indicate that such a number could certainly NOT have passed through Goree — or in all likelihood even from all the other locations involved!

Anyone interested in researching the subject can find plenty of material on the history of the house, its development into a museum and tourist site and its elevation as a powerful symbol disassociated from its real history.

Their presentation of the historical background also contains its propagandist aspects — but, at least, the sites' historic credentials are genuine. USA -. I visited Ile St Louis in Dec Ile St Louis can be reached by a short ferry ride from Dakar. The ferry is a bit of a challenge as you'll be constantly harassed to hire a guide or visit a souvenir shop.

The slave fort itself is open for visits and although colorful in pink plaster and brilliant flowering shrubs, it has a sour aura of sadness about it. We were lucky to have a tourguide give a 20 minute soliliquy in French on life at the fort. His dramatic and authentic presentation was worth the trip alone. The island remains inhabited with friendly french speaking Senegalese and the colorful french style colonial houses and beautiful children love to be photographed.

Ask first. There are a few pensions on the island but plenty of hotels in Dakar. Although we were constantly harassed, we never felt unsafe. Senegal -. I have lived in Goree for 8 years and this is really one of most important testimony of the slave trade that history has to offer. Ile de Goree. The site has 1 locations. The site has 21 connections.