List of Cape Verdean-Portuguese town and municipality partnerships
This list of Cape Verde-Portuguese town and municipality partnerships shows the town and municipality friendships between the countries of Cape Verde and Portugal .
Despite the comparatively small state area of Cape Verdean, 107 municipal partnerships with Portuguese municipalities exist or are being initiated (as of 2018). They are a sign of the close Cape Verdean-Portuguese relations since the profound realignment of Portuguese foreign policy after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the subsequent independence of Cape Verdean in 1975. For example, the numerous partnerships between Portuguese municipalities and the Cape Verdean town of Tarrafal go to the local political prison Campo do Tarrafal back, a concentration camp that served as the central political prison of the authoritarian Estado Novo dictatorship of colonial Portugal. The Cape Verde Islands have been a Portuguese colony since their discovery and settlement by Portugal in the mid-15th century .
The partnerships exist at different levels, for example between districts ( concelhos ), municipalities ( freguesias ), individual places or even local authority associations. The first Cape Verdean-Portuguese friendship between cities came in 1983 with the two capitals Praia and Lisbon .
List of city partnerships and friendships
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Cape Verdean-Portuguese town twinning at the Association of Portuguese Administrative Districts (ANMP), accessed on May 14, 2020