Square, Plaza sights in Banjul
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Old Town
West from the ferry terminal towards the wide Ma Cumba Jallow St (Dobson St) is a chaotic assembly of decrepit colonial buildings and Krio-style clapboard houses - steep-roofed structures with wrought-iron balconies and corrugated roofs. It's no coincidence they resemble the inner-city architecture of Freetown, Sierra Leone, as many of them still belong to families who came to Banjul from Freetown, some as early as the 1820s.
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July 22 Square
A recently greened colonial creation, July 22 Square was once the site of cricket matches but is now mainly used for governmental pomp and public celebrations. Look out for the War Memorial and the (now dried-up) fountain 'erected by public subscription' to commemorate the coronation of King George VI of Britain in 1937.
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