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Carved Doors of Stone Town |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 566 Words, 3,640 Characters |
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While wandering the maze of Stone Town, one cannot help but be impressed by the city's most prized architectural feature, its massive carved doors. Many of them are hundreds of years old, the oldest dating to 1694. Though Zanzibar boasts the highest concentration of carved doors on the Swahili Coast, they were fashionable throughout eastern Africa among the immigrant Indian and Arab merchant class. The Portuguese wayfarer Duarte Barbarosa wrote of his...
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...y international buyers and antique dealers. (Some doors have been spotted in southern France, and one in Cape Town.) Fortunately, many doors have been painstakingly restored, especially those in the facades of hotels or commercial establishments able to afford the expense. In 1982, the local government began training a new generation of local artisans in the craft of wood carving.
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