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The CFM railway station is a white ornamental Art Nouveau structure with green decorative bands, a rose window, arched entrance, and tall flanking pines that has stood at the end of Avenida Samora Machel since 1916.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are unmistakably warm and specific: the creamy white and green of the CFM facade in the morning light, the terracotta of the mosaic pavements on the Avenida 25 de Setembro, the deep turquoise of Delagoa Bay at noon from the Polana cliff, and the warm gold of the acacia flowers that give the city its Portuguese nickname. 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