Ngazobil

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ngazobil, also called Ngasobil, is a village on the Petite Côte in Senegal, south of Dakar, in the M'bour area of the Thiès region. Since the 19th century it has hosted one of Senegal's oldest Catholic missions, started by François Libermann, founder of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Louis-Philippe Walter stayed there in 1867. The village is where future president Léopold Sédar Senghor studied until 1922, and where Hyacinthe Thiandoum trained. Saint-Joseph Seminary was declared a historical monument in 2003. Today Ngazobil is a common pilgrimage site. Nearby towns include Pointe-Sarène, Ponto, Mbodiène, Joal-Fadiouth, Palmarin and Djifer. The landscape features a limestone cliff, a sandy beach, and a 500-hectare forest park that is home to many animals such as guineafowl, partridges, boas, monitor lizards, monkeys, hedgehogs, porcupines, jackals and hares. The mission owns a beach lined with coconut palms where people fish.