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Lagos City Marathon, Nigeria
Save the Date: 08 February 2020
IAAF Silver Label Race
Registration: Official Site
Starting Time: 07:30am (Local Time)
2019 Winners:
Male: Sintayehu Legese (Ethiopia) 02:17:28
Female: Dinke Meseret (Ethiopia) 02:48:02
About Lagos:
Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, sprawls inland from the Gulf of Guinea across Lagos Lagoon. Victoria Island, the financial center of the metropolis, is known for its beach resorts, boutiques and nightlife. To the north, Lagos Island is home to the National Museum Lagos, displaying cultural artifacts and craftworks. Nearby is Freedom Park, once a colonial-era prison and now a major venue for concerts and public events. Wikipedia
You must Visit:
National Museum
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This museum also operates a nonprofit crafts centre, which stocks a good range of batik cloth, woodcarvings and textiles at fixed prices. There's a fine range of intricately decorated calabashes from across Nigeria. The museum is 150m southeast of Tafawa Balewa Sq, a huge arena adorned by statues of gargantuan horses. In the square is Remembrance Arcade, with memorials to Nigeria's dead from two world wars and the Biafran conflict.
Located in Onikan, Lagos. National Museum displays contemporary arts and historical monuments. The main attractions at the museum are the galleries dedicated to brasses from Benin City, Nok Terracottas etc. Another gallery dedicated to traditional symbols of power contains carved ivory and a royal host of crowns. Source
Terra Kulture
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Terra Kulture is an arts and culture center in Lagos with an attached restaurant.
Nigerian lawyer Bolanle Austen-Peters founded Terra Kulture in 2003.
The center is a restaurant, serving Nigerian cuisine, bookstore and cultural venue, hosting exhibitions of Nigerian art, theater, and book readings as well as language classes in the three main Nigerian languages, Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba.
Annual events at Terra Kulture includes an art auction and the Taruwa festival of Performing arts. Wikipedia
La Campagne Tropicana
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Lacampagne Tropicana Beach Resort is a 65 acre tranquil paradise located just an hour’s drive from Victoria Island in Lagos State. This resort offers a unique blend of natural environments which include a fresh water lake, accessible mangrove forest, a savannah, extensive sandy beach and the warm Atlantic sea. lagoscitymarathon.com
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