Roça Monte Café
A 19th-century coffee plantation on a hillside about 700 meters high, with a coffee museum in its colonial buildings that explains the whole process from growing to roasting.
Monte Café was founded in 1858 and is one of São Tomé's most important coffee plantations. It lies about 15 km southwest of the capital on a hillside at an altitude of about 700 meters, where the climate is cool. The estate retains extensive colonial-era buildings, including the manor house, the hospital, workers' housing and drying yards, and several hundred residents still live here. The Museu do Café in the main building covers the history of coffee cultivation and processing and displays the tools used. After the visit you can taste local coffee and buy coffee beans. Admission is a few euros. It is on the way to the Cascata de São Nicolau and the entrance to Bom Sucesso in Obo National Park, so the sights can be visited in a single day.
Opening hours
Museum approx. 08:00–16:00
Nearby sights
- Cascata de São Nicolau
- Obô Natural Park
- Roça Agostinho Neto
- Claudio Corallo Chocolate Factory
- São Tomé Cathedral
- Pico de São Tomé
- Fort São Sebastião
- Lagoa Azul