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Dakar 2021 LAVENUE PONTY DEPUIS LA PLACE DE LINDÉPENDANCE JUSQUÀ PEYTAVIN
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Video Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChMVTqtTz34
La ville de Dakar est une vieille agglomération datant du 15ième siècle et ne devenant la capitale du Sénégal qu'en 1902, remplaçant la ville de Saint Louis du Sénégal. • Aujourd'hui, nous faisons un tour au cœur de cette capitale où anciens bâtiments côtoient immeubles de bureaux et d'appartements modernes. C'est un hub commercial multi-centenaire qui est toujours en effervescence. L'Avenue William Ponty désormais appelée Avenue George Pompidou en est une des artères principales avec toute une histoire, et ces images rappelleront de beaux souvenirs à certains! • • The city of Dakar is an old agglomeration dating from the 15th century and only becoming the capital of Senegal in 1902, replacing the city of Saint Louis of Senegal. • Today, we take a tour in the heart of this capital where old buildings rub shoulders with office buildings and modern apartments. It is a multi-centennial commercial hub which is always bustling with activity. Avenue William Ponty now called Avenue George Pompidou is one of the main arteries with a whole history, and these images will bring back fond memories to some! • • @BAROTIKI • • • • _______________________ • The Cap-Vert peninsula was settled no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighboring Wolof and Serer. The original villages—Ouakam, Ngor, Yoff and Hann—still constitute distinctively Lebou neighborhoods of the city today. In 1444, the Portuguese reached the Bay of Dakar, initially as slave-raiders. Peaceful contact was finally opened in 1456 by Diogo Gomes, and the bay was subsequently referred to as the Angra de Bezeguiche (after the name of the local ruler). The bay of Bezeguiche would go on to serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th century, where large fleets would routinely stop, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cap-Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage. (It was famously during one of these stops, in 1501, where the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci began to construct his New World hypothesis about America.) • • Wikipedia
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