O Escondidinho

Northern Mozambique


The restaurant at this hotel has a changing daily menu featuring well-prepared prawns, crayfish and other seafood dishes with French overtones, and tables near the small garden and pool.


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Nearby Northern Mozambique attractions

1. Hindu Temple

0.04 MILES

Incredible diversity exists on tiny Mozambique Island, a fact reflected in this Hindu temple located next to the main market a stone's throw from a mosque…

2. BIM

0.11 MILES

This bank's restored, ochre-toned facade is worth a look.

3. Casa de Camões

0.19 MILES

The great Portuguese poet Luís de Camões resided briefly on Mozambique Island in the late 1560s, allegedly in this house. Although not open to the public,…

4. Camões Statue

0.23 MILES

Looking like a cross between Shakespeare and Cervantes, this statue of Portuguese poet Luís de Camões stands sentinel over a small triangular park by the…

5. Hospital

0.25 MILES

Second only to the Fort of São Sebastião in size and grandiosity, this imposing neoclassical hospital was built by the Portuguese in 1877. For a time it…

6. Igreja da Saúde

0.29 MILES

This handsome neoclassical edifice dates from 1633, when it was founded by the Capuchins. The neoclassicism is the result of a early-19th-century refurb.

7. Igreja da Misericórdia

0.29 MILES

With a distinctive white facade, this church is best viewed while sitting at a table in the Café-Bar Áncora d’Ouro opposite. The original church was…

8. Museu de Arte Sacra

0.3 MILES

Containing religious ornaments, paintings and carvings, this museum is housed in the former hospital of the Holy House of Mercy, a religious guild that…