Grand-Bassam was the most important port, economic and judicial centre of Côte d’Ivoire. The site includes the N’zima African fishing village alongside colonial architecture marked by functional houses with galleries, verandas and gardens. The first capital of Côte d’Ivoire, the Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, is an example of a late 19 th- and early 20 th-century colonial town planned with quarters specializing in commerce, administration, housing for Europeans and for Africans. Even though iron ore reduction –obtaining iron from ore – is no longer practiced today, village blacksmiths still play a major role in supplying tools, while taking part in various rituals. The other components of the property – Tiwêga, Yamané, Kindibo and Békuy – illustrate the intensification of iron production during the second millennium CE. Douroula, which dates back to the 8th century BCE, is the oldest evidence of the development of iron production found in Burkina Faso. It includes about fifteen standing, natural-draught furnaces, several other furnace structures, mines and traces of dwellings. This property is composed of five elements located in different provinces of the country. Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso.The property which was finally deserted in the early 19th century is expected to yield much more information. The settlement seems to have been abandoned during some periods during its long history. Much mystery surrounds this site large parts of which have yet to be excavated. The settlement was occupied by the Lohron or Koulango peoples, who controlled the extraction and transformation of gold in the region when it reached its apogee from the 14th to the 17th century. Situated near the borders of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo, the ruins have recently been shown to be at least 1,000 years old. The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone walls is the best preserved of ten fortresses in the Lobi area and is part of a larger group of 100 stone enclosures that bear testimony to the power of the trans-Saharan gold trade.
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