Governors’ Palace

Bolama, with the Archipelago of the Bijagós, Guinea-Bissau | Gulf of Guinea | São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau

Housing

This large building, as shown in a postcard from 1920, seems to be a 19th century work, featuring a style characteristic of the tropics, with a wide, sheltered balcony-like gallery surrounding the upper floor of its three sequential volumes with wide roofs. This must have been replaced, or reconstructed, by a building of neo-traditional taste, with a central façade and long balconies-gallerias in reinforced concrete on the upper floor.

• José Manuel Fernandes