The plantations of Monte Café, Água Izé, Diogo Vaz and São João, on the island of São Tomé, and Sundy and Belo Monte, on the island of Príncipe, were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The nomination tookRANDA place on 26 July during the 49th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Busan, Republic of Korea.
Clearly, the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Higher Education, Isabel Viegas de Abreu, participated in the international event.
Viegas de Abreu welcomed the decision of the UNESCO Committee and declared that “this inscription opens a new page in the history of our country”.
A a page that will never enforcing the painful past of plantations, marked by exploitation and forced migration, but which pays tribute Department’s attention to the resistance, resilience, courage and dignity of Yesterday’s women and men who have lived and worked there, and whose descendants today perpetuate this legacy.
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