Stone Town
The old town of Zanzibar City, on a promontory on the west side of Unguja. Its narrow streets, carved Zanzibar doors and coral-stone houses reflect more than a thousand years of Swahili, Arab, Indian and European trade, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Most of the major buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. They include the Old Fort, built on the site of an earlier Portuguese church, the House of Wonders, a ceremonial palace built by Sultan Barghash, the Old Dispensary and the Hamamni Persian baths.
Zanzibar was one of the main slave-trading ports of East Africa. Christ Church Anglican Cathedral stands on the site of the last slave market.