Aného
Togo
- Population
- 47,579
- Currency
- XOFFr571.4/$
Aného is a town of 25,000 people (2010) in southeastern Togo on the Gulf of Guinea near the border of Benin. Aného is an old German colonial town, and a centre of voodoo along the West African pilgrimage route Voodoo Trail, which connects Lomé with Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
Guide content adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Aného". Source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Weather
Live28°C
Light drizzle · feels like 31°C
- 77%
- 15 km/h
- AQI 19
- MonLight drizzle24° / 28°
- TueModerate drizzle24° / 28°
- WedLight drizzle24° / 27°
- ThuLight drizzle24° / 28°
- FriOvercast25° / 27°
Measured at 6.228, 1.592 · Africa/Lome
Understand
Aného owes its charm to the many buildings characteristic of the architecture of the German era.
The natives of Aného are the Guin and the Mina.
The town's main industries are farming and fishing, while it is still a centre for Voodoo.
Getting there
It is 45 km east of the capital Lomé.
Getting around
What to see
Notable buildings include Aneho Protestant Church (built in 1895) and Aneho Peter and Paul Church, cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aného, dating from 1898.
In the Adido district there is an old German cemetery with very well-preserved graves, the inscriptions of which are easy to read and tell a piece of colonial history.
Also worth seeing is a small museum, which is equipped with pictures and objects from the German colonial era.
- Aneho Peter and Paul Church. Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aného, dating from 1898.
- Aneho Protestant Church. Church built in 1895.
- Museum. Small museum, which is equipped with pictures and objects from the German colonial era.
- 1 Woold Homé (Agbodrafo, 15 km west along the coast). Historic house that once belonged to an English slave trader, used to hold enslaved people before they were sent across the Atlantic.
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