11 Sights in Pointe-à-Pitre, France (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in FranceSightseeing Tours in Pointe-à-Pitre1. Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Pointe-à-Pitre Church is a Roman Catholic church located on Place Gourbeyre in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Although it has never been consecrated, the church is in common parlance locally called "cathedral". In 1978, the building was classified as a historical monument and in 2021 benefited from the annual edition of the Heritage Lottery as a priority site.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Pointe-à-Pitre (FR)
2. Musée L'Herminier
The L'Herminier Pavilion is a building located at the corner of Rue Sadi-Carnot and Rue Jean-Jaurès in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Built around 1873 for the Chamber of Agriculture of Guadeloupe, which became the Musée L'Herminier in the twentieth century, it was listed as a historical monument in 2008.
3. Hôtel de Ville de Pointe à Pitre
The town hall of Pointe-à-Pitre is the current town hall located Place des Martyrs-de-la-Liberté in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Built in 1973 to replace the old town hall, which had become unsuited to the administrative needs of the growing municipality, it was listed as a historic monument in 2011.
4. Musée Schoelcher
The Schœlcher Museum is a museum located in Guadeloupe in the old quarter of Pointe-à-Pitre, at 24 rue Peynier. It houses a collection including objects that belonged to the French journalist and politician Victor Schoelcher who was the defender of the definitive abolition of slavery in France.
5. Maison natale de Saint-John-Perse
The birthplace of Saint-John-Perse was a residential building located at 54, rue Achille-René-Boisneuf – former rue d'Arbaud – in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. Built around 1850-1860, it was the birthplace and childhood of the French writer and poet Alexis Leger dit Saint-John Perse.
6. Ancien presbytère Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
The former presbytery Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul is a building built in the nineteenth century, located between the Place de la Victoire and the Place de l'Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, in the city center of Pointe-à-Pitre, sub-prefecture of Guadeloupe.
Wikipedia: Ancien presbytère Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul (FR)
7. Musée Saint-John Perse
The Saint-John-Perse Museum is a municipal museum located in the historic district of Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe. It houses a permanent exhibition on Creole costumes and on the poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse, Nobel Prize in literature in 1960.
8. Ancienne usine sucrière Darboussier
The Darboussier sugar factory is an old sugar factory in the town of Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe. It is located on the banks of the port. His name comes from his location where the home of a French trader was located, Jean Darboussier.
9. École maternelle Bédian
The Bébian nursery school-former Mortenol library-is a building located at 7bis, rue Alsace-Lorraine at the corner of rue Bébian in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. Built in 1930, it was registered in historic monuments in 1979.
10. Marché central couvert
The central market of Pointe-à-Pitre-also called spices market or Saint-Antoine market-is a municipal building located in the historic district of Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe since its erection in 1874.
11. Ancien entrepôt Darboussier
The former Darboussier warehouse is a warehouse located on Quai Lefebvre in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Built around 1870 for the Darboussier sugar factory, it was listed as a historical monument in 2008.
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