Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

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Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.

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Cidade Velha, founded by the Portuguese in 1462, is the oldest European settlement in the tropics.

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In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women - the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 - is still in operation.

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