Dar es Salaam<\/strong> is the largest city in Tanzania, as well as its financial and commercial center. Its port<\/strong> is among the most important in East Africa<\/strong>, a hub for sea trade since ancient times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 19th century, where the tropical metropolis we know today stands, there was a small fishing village<\/strong> called Mzizima<\/strong>. Around 1865, the first Sultan of Zanzibar<\/strong>, Majid bin Said, began building a new city<\/strong> next to the village and named it Dar es Salaam, \u201cabode of peace\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Its strategic position<\/strong>, on the edge of trade routes to the Indian Ocean, made it the administrative and commercial center of the territories of East Africa colonised by the Germans <\/strong>and then passed under British rule<\/strong>. With the independence of what was then Tanganyika<\/strong> in 1961, Dar es Salaam became the capital<\/strong> and remained so even in 1964 when the annexation of Zanzibar<\/strong> led to the birth of Tanzania<\/strong>. Only in 1974 was the capital moved to Dodoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today Dar es Salaam is a city with cosmopolitan architecture<\/strong>, mixing modern skyscrapers<\/strong> with period buildings<\/strong>, built in as many different styles<\/strong> as the cultures that have passed through there. Walking through the neighborhoods you can recognize the Arab, African, German, British<\/strong> and Indian <\/strong>influences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From fishing village to cosmopolitan metropolis. Dar es Salaam is the commercial heart of Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1754,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2078","attrazioni","type-attrazioni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n