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{{Infobox Cape Verde settlement
| name       = Nossa Senhora do Monte
| image_skyline   = RuaPrincipalNossaSra.jpg
| image_caption   = Main Street
| coordinates = {{coord|14.858|-24.718|type:adm1st_region:CV_dim:50000|display=inline,title}}
| key        = 91208
| elevation = 642
| postal code = 9110
}}
'''Nossa Senhora do Monte''' is a town<ref name=yearbook>[http://ine.cv/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/statistical-yearbook-cv-2015_en.pdf Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925093646/http://ine.cv/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/statistical-yearbook-cv-2015_en.pdf |date=2018-09-25 }}, [[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde)|Instituto Nacional de Estatística]], p. 32-33</ref> located in the heart of the island of [[Brava, Cape Verde|Brava]], [[Cape Verde]]. It is the seat of the parish of [[Nossa Senhora do Monte (Brava)|Nossa Senhora do Monte]]. Its elevation is 650 m, and its population was 271 in 2010.  Nossa Senhora do Monte is surrounded by mountains. [[Monte Fontainhas]], Brava's tallest mountain reaching a height of 976 meters, is close to the village.
[[File:AluguerEmNossaSra.jpg|thumb|left|"''Aluguer''" bus in Nossa Senhora do Monte.]]
Nearby places include [[Cova Joana]] to the northeast, [[Mato, Cape Verde|Mato]] to the southeast and [[Campo Baixo, Cape Verde|Campo Baixo]] to the southwest.
[[File:NossaSraIgreja.jpg|thumb|left|[[Pilgrimage Church]].]][[File:NossaSraEscola.jpg|thumb|left|School.]][[File:NossaSraVistaGeral.jpg|thumb|left|General view from the North.]]
It was founded in 1826, and a few years later it became the seat of a bishop.<ref name=reit>Reitmaier, Pitt: ''Cabo Verde'', p.415-8. Bielefeld 2009.</ref> In 1862 Nossa Senhora do Monte became a place of pilgrimage.<ref name=reit/> There are a sightworthy Catholic pilgrimage church and a smaller Adventist Church in the village. Several shops and small bars are to be found in Main Street. Several times a day, Nossa Senhora do Monte can be reached by "''Aluguer''" bus from Nova Sintra.
A small church of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]] was built in 1938.<ref>{{cite work|last=Land|first=Gary|title=Historical Dictionary of Seventh-Day Adventists (= Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements|page=55|publisher=Scarecrow|place=Lanham MD|year=2005|isbn=0-8108-5345-0}}</ref>
== References ==
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{{Brava, Cape Verde}}
[[Category:Geography of Brava, Cape Verde]]
[[Category:Towns in Cape Verde]]
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