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Old Portuguese Arch
Historical landmark
😠 Do not go out of your way to visit this. You will most likely see it while leaving Stone Town, or as you walk around the area. It is literally just an arch, with no plaque or signage that does tells you what it was for or the significance of the arch. It's beautiful, especially if you like architect...
4.40 (234 reviews)
(~1.41 km from centre)
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Jaw's Corner
Historical landmark
👍👍 The site is unique. A small square: the heart of the chaotic city of Stonetown. The facades of the old houses around the square are painted white and purple and some beautiful doors that belong to the UNESCO Heritage are also preserved, carved in wood, in Indian, Arabic or Swahili styles from the 18...
4.40 (112 reviews)
(~1.19 km from centre)
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Mangapwani Slave Chamber
Historical landmark
😐 Apart from the historic slave chambers, Mangapwani has a nice beach coast. A little bit trouble getting down the shore, but once down there you will love it. The slave chambers have been here since 1800s. Somehow very old and dying small buildings but full structure still exists.
4.40 (85 reviews)
(~19.3 km from centre)
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Old Dispensary
Historical landmark
Elegant late-19th-century building with elaborate Indian & European elements, now home to a museum.
4.30 (221 reviews)
(~0.85 km from centre)
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Mission Cross
Historical landmark
👍👍 Mission Cross is such a great historical place.. Its where Christianity begun in East Africa. The Cross was kept by the missionary priests in 1900's.. In TANZANIA😇
4.30 (115 reviews)
(~44.51 km from centre)
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Mtoni Palace Ruins
Historical landmark
👍 To wade through the history of Zanzibar move a little north towards Bububu and reach Mtoni Palace Ruins. It islocated just north of Maruhubi, built between 1828 and 1834 for Sultan Said. The land believed to be belonged to Saleh bin Haramil, the Arab trader who imported the first cloves to Zanzibar....
4.30 (47 reviews)
(~3.11 km from centre)
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Tippu Tip's House
Historical landmark
👍👍 Tippu Tip built himself a trading empire that he then translated into clove plantations on Zanzibar. Abdul Sheriff reported that when he left for his twelve years of "empire building" on the mainland, he had no plantations of his own. By 1895, he had acquired "seven 'shambas' [plantations] and 10,00...
3.10 (37 reviews)
(~1.48 km from centre)