11 km from São Tomé, on the left, is the shaded main entrance to Agostinho Neto, the island's largest roça, which was once thriving. Today, most of its facilities are in ruins, and the locals remain nostalgic for its glorious past. In colonial times, access to the plantation was restricted to the owners of the roça and their guests. Initially named roça Rio do Ouro, the estate changed its name at the time of independence, as a tribute to the many Angolan workers imported to this plantation, as slaves before abolition, and then as employees at the end of the colonial era.At the top of the hill, there is a roça in a state of total dilapidation, built at the foot of the mountains. Immediately to the right is the house of the plantation's masters and the abandoned gardens above. On the other side of the road and at the top, the colossal building of the old hospital which took in all the sick people of the area closes the top of the housing concession. On either side of the slope leading to this building, the employees' huts housed two ethnic groups: on the left the Cape Verdeans, on the right the Angolans.

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