Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde

Santa Bárbara is a small village in the east of the island of Brava, Cape Verde. It lies in the north of the island at an altitude of 16 meters above sea level and has about 6000 inhabitants.

About a busy cobbled street of the city from the island's capital, around 3 km from Vila Nova Sintra is irregular with trains running to and achieve typical Aluguer buses for the Cape Verde Islands. The road east of Santa Bárbara in places steeply downhill to the harbor Furna. Almost all the inhabitants of Santa Bárbaras live on agriculture (mainly corn ), also some livestock (cows and goats) is operated. The village consists mainly of single-storey houses with a hipped roof. A nice view of Santa Bárbara offers from the eastern edge of Vila Nova Sintra, here's a Aussichtspubkt in the form of a ship was - the "Santa Maria" by Christopher Columbus - created.

In the village there is a church, a school, a sports field and some small shops to meet the daily needs.

Santa Bárbara was formerly known called because of Fonte do Vinagre mineral spring, whose name in German " vinegar source " meant. The mineral sources with its sour -tasting water sprang the southeast of the village and was a one-hour walk along a footpath, it also served to irrigate landscaped terraces fields. However, it dried up at the beginning of the 21st century. Even today, in their place next to a pool was build in the 19th century bath house to see, which was previously mainly visited by the landowners of the area, the Morgados. Already mid -1970s was the yield of the source sharply, after they had tried in vain to increase the supply of water by blasting.