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Monte Café

Monte Café is a roça in the interior of São Tomé focused on coffee history. Its museum explains cultivation, harvesting, drying and production, while the settlement reveals how processing buildings, housing and agricultural landscape were connected.

Monte Café
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The place

What makes it special

  • Coffee Museum and the full coffee-production process.
  • Coffee route linking Bemposta, Novo Destino and Monte Café.
  • Architecture and spatial organisation of the roça.
Historic buildings at Monte Café plantation in São Tomé
Photo by Ji-Elle Source: Wikimedia Commons Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Monte Café
Photo by Ji-Elle Source: Wikimedia Commons Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
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Monte Café

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Historic buildings at Monte Café plantation in São Tomé

Heritage route through Monte Café, Água Izé and São João in São Tomé

Three former plantations show why a roça is more than an isolated farm: it was an infrastructure for production, housing and control. This route invites you to visit them with time and context.

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Profile updated: 13/09/2026