Nampula, tucked in the rolling hills and rising mountains of the interior, was established as a centre in 1967 when the Portuguese government transferred the army headquarters from Mozambique Island to here.
Nampula is the commercial heartland of Mozambique, with banks, hotels, tennis clubs, supermarkets and large glass-fronted stores selling expensive motorcars. The skyline of the town is dominated by the twin cupola called Cathedral de Nosa Senhora da Conceicao which the locals irreverently call Gina Lollobrigida.
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