Cape VerdeAfrica
my city isPraia
A flat-topped old centre, a natural harbour below, and valleys to the beach.
14.9330° N 23.5133° W
Neighbourhoods
- Platô
- Várzea
- Chã d’Areia
- Achada Grande Frente
- Achadinha de Baixo
- Ponta d'Agua
- Vila Nova
- Tira Chapéu
- Calabaceira
- Craveiro Lopes
- Terra Branca
- Eugenio Lima
Constellation
the neighbourhoods of Praia
24 places, joined nearest to nearest
Ring yoursThe lines
Praia, in our lines
Each of our lines, drawn again for Praia, for a wall or for a chest.
In words
Praia, in its own words
From Praia's own names, set in the city's type: its neighbourhoods, its streets from A to Z and the sentence. Each one a print you can make yours.
About Praia
Streets packed onto a high flat shelf, ravines cut deep on either side, and a beach and harbour just below. Praia is Cape Verde's capital, on the southern coast of Santiago.
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Praia, mapped and lettered
01 · 10 maps
The whole of it
Praia's streets, drawn eight ways, plus studies of only its water or roads.
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02 · 7 designs
Twelve neighbourhoods, one by one
Praia in words: the sentence, finished, every neighbourhood run together and its name built big. Avenida Padre Pimenta runs longest through the middle of town.
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03 · 6 designs
Every which way
Praia, measured: the distance to somewhere else, its year, month by month and how far it is to everywhere else. There's no grid: its streets run every which way.
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04 · 7 date designs
Keep the date
A day in Praia, set like an invitation and signed 14.933° N, 23.513° W: the day you moved, married, met or arrived. You write the words.
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05 · 14 designs to wear and use
To wear and use
Praia on hoodies, tees, crewnecks and stickers, made for you.
Ways in
Start from a moment in Praia.
Each one has the words, a pin, a date and a style already in place for Praia. Open it, then make every part yours.