Sobrado (architecture)
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A sobrado is a baroque house building style from the Portuguese colonial era, typical in Brazil, other former Portuguese colonies and enslaved returnees and their descendants.
Sobrado de Madalena, Recife.
Museu Municipal de São Filipe, of what was a sobrado style house, it is one of the most prominent in Cape Verde
House number 56, Silva Jardim Street, Salvador, Bahia
Maja House, Gerber Square
Brazilian Nigerians
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Brazilian Nigerians, Amarôs or Agudás consist of the descendants of Afro-Brazilians who left Brazil and settled in Benin, Togo and Nigeria. In Ghana, they established themselves mostly in Accra and fo
Sobrado (architecture)
…rooms on the upper floor, while the ground floor was used for commercial activities, workshops, or the living quarters of household staff. See also: Afro-Brazilians, Water House and Architecture of Lagos The style was brought by formerly enslaved people and merchants returning from Bahia, Brazil, particularly after…
Bahia woman, 1885
Baroque style, Bahia
Afro-Brazilian Catholic Church in Bahia