Vasco da Gama Pillar

Kilifi County · Kenya

Vasco da Gama Pillar, Kenya
Photo: Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Year-round
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
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A coral-stone pillar in Malindi erected by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama around 1498 as a navigational marker. It is one of the oldest surviving European monuments in Africa.

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