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This is inside the Cemetery of Salamansa, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde.
Similar note of the photo outside this Cemitério de Salamansa:
The main cemetery of São Vicente Island was built in 1888 and it is located in Chã de Cemitério, near Mindelo city. This smaller one, near Salamansa, was built some 100 years later in a barren land, by the road between Salamansa proper and Praia do Norte (Norte Baía). Most of religious people in Cape Verde are Roman Catholics.

Localização / Location WikiMapia: 16.8949066, -24.9273992.
Este cemitério localiza-se entre as aldeias de Salamansa e Praia do Norte (Norte Baía), na ilha de São Vicente, Cabo Verde. Tal como numa telenovela brasileira (O Bem-amado), este cemitério esteve muitos anos sem ser "inaugurado" por falta de defuntos para serem sepultados. Até se brincava dizendo que teriam que ser transferidos para aqui defuntos do cemitério do Mindelo.
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Maybe there is some relation between this and my previous photo (Planetário Gulbenkian). Both have a dome. The dome of planetarium is designed to show us the sky, while the dome of the cemetery chapel shelters these Catholic deceased before their last trip to heaven. The link is that the religious heaven and the scientific sky have the same word in our Portuguese language: céu.

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