Cape Verde house: real estate property investment

Deep sea desert. A natural paradise.

The island of Boavista is considered one of the last natural paradises on earth, where dunes of white sand slope and drown into a sea with nuances going from emerald green to cobalt blue. Boavista is the most tropical island of Cabo Verde.

The sea that surrounds it is pure Caribbean, and the beaches are the most beautiful of the archipelago: 55 kilometres of white sands, overlooking an incredible emerald green sea, which represent alone 52% of the entire seaside patrimony of the archipelago. Thanks to its shallow waters, the seabed is rich with fauna. The environmental beauties of Boavista are countless:

The incredible Santa Monica: the southern part of the island hosts the largest beach of Cabo Verde and one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Twenty kilometres of white sands and green sea, like a postcard, which the tourists call Santa Monica, like the famous Californian beach. But, unlike the American beach, this Santa Monica has no hotels or restaurants. There is absolutely nothing but a few huts of hermit fishermen. The tourist brochures define it as the longest beach in the world. Surely, it is considered one of the most beautiful and fascinating beaches of the planet.

Varandinha, where the ocean likes to play with the beach and the grottos, in a series of rocky and sandy coves of incomparable beauty. Or like the small beach of Ervatao, characterized by its shallow seabed gently sloping into the water. Here, the sea turtles (Caretta Caretta) meet punctually every summer to lay hundreds of eggs, under the careful eye of the volunteers of environmental associations, so that the baby turtles can safely reach the sea.

Boavista is a unique island. Certainly, the many Europeans in love with Boavista are aware of that; some of them settled here to fulfil their dream, and many of them are Italians. With the support and financing of the European Union, the "Project Cabo Verde Nature 2000” has started, aimed at the study and preservation of the island natural resources. Within the scope of this project, researchers and volunteers of the Las Palmas University (Great Canary) have established a facility for the protection of the environment and of the animals. Boavista is the seat of some pilot projects on the preservation of crayfish, the breeding of the "Caretta Caretta" sea turtles and of birds of prey and sea birds. Moreover, between December and June, the humpback whales get so close to the coast that you can see them jump out of the water with your naked eyes and hear their song while scuba diving.

An article published by "Gente Viaggi" in March 2008 describes Boavista like so: "...a natural oasis. Cobalt blue sea, fine sand beaches, palm trees moved by the warm breath of trade winds. Only a five hours flight away, the African islands of Cabo Verde are a taste of the Tropics. The dunes gently slope to a sea bursting with fish, which conceals fabulous shipwrecks [...] In just a little more than five hours of flight, you leave the rigours of the Italian winter to wear your bathrobe, in any season of the year. A tough competitor for places like the Red Sea, Tunisia, Morocco. In Boavista, in the real estate sector, things are changing fast. Even the “Times” discovered it and considers it the "new tourist capital of next door Tropics"; so did Channel 4, which placed it among the best twenty destinations to buy a house. Before the Cote d’Azur, Ibiza and Tuscany...".