Quartel Jaime Mota

Quartel Jaime Mota
Av. Andrade Corvo
Praia, Cape Verde

Front of the barracks of Jaime Mota
lighthouse
Cape Verde
Coordinates 14°55′54″N 23°30′30″W / 14.93167°N 23.50833°W / 14.93167; -23.50833Coordinates: 14°55′54″N 23°30′30″W / 14.93167°N 23.50833°W / 14.93167; -23.50833
Site history
Built 1826

Quartel Jaime Mota is a former military barrack located on the southern end of Avenida Andrade Corvo in Praia, Cape Verde, on the highest part of the historic area of the plateau (Platô). Located next to Palácio Presidencial to its west, monuments including one dedicated to Diogo Gomes in the west and to Praça Alexandre Albuquerque which features two monuments including one of Serpa Pinto, it overlooks the Atlantic along with its beach, Gambôa, the city's port and harbor. It was built in 1826 with colonial style architecture and one of the oldest in the city, below is the roundabout that intersects with the shoreline road.

Its modern name is named after Jaime Mota, a Cape Verdean guerilla, militant of PAICV who was killed in Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau).[1]

In the building's front, four former cannon wheels colored blue is featured along with its façade and white window panels.

History

An abandoned BRDM-2 tank in 2012

The change of a part of the barrack to a national museum started planning in 2004.[2] The project was started in 2012, the building will house both services of the Ministry of Defense and the military museum. The work takes in the need to preserve a historic façade and the original structure of in a horseshoe form, describes Portuguese forts of the 19th century.[3] A street is now used as a walkway today.

Outside the building in 2012, a Soviet originated BRDM-2 armored military tank of the 1980s.

As part of the cooperation accord signed on December 2013 by the Cape Verdean and Angolan Ministers of Defence. Angola started to restore and modernize the Jaime Mota former barracks.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Cabo Verde : a policia militar" [Cape Verde: Its Military Police] (in Portuguese). Operacional. 3 December 2009.
  2. ↑ "País vai ter um museu nacional além de museus locais nas nove ilhas" (in Portuguese). Notícias Lusófonas. 4 February 2004.
  3. ↑ "Jaime Mota albergará o futuro Ministério da Defesa Nacional e o Museu Militar" [Jaime Mota to be Used as a Future National Ministry of Defense and a Military Museum] (in Portuguese). Cape Verdean National Ministry of Defense. 9 November 2012.
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