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| It is into 1742 that the governor of the colony proposed Port-au-Prince like capital of Haiti, on November 26, 1749 Port-au- Prince was declared officially like capital of Haiti, the city will be the administrative station, and commercial of the French colony, the city entirely built out of wood was regularly destroyed. Initially by the earthquake, then several time by fire. It is only into 1785 that Bard of Marbois undertook many construction and drainage works there. |
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The Notre Dame cathedral is a building noroman opened with the worship on December 20, 1914. It is with the downtown area of , rue du D'Aubry Port-au-Prince. It is the greatest religious construction of the town of Port-au-Prince and probably of Haiti. His two majestic white towers by far are noticed. Located at the West of the building, their cupolas are not without recalling the basilica of Crowned Heart to Paris. In front of the park closed with the public but open Sunday during the mass. In this park maintained well throne the bust the second archbishop of Port-au-Prince, the Guilloux archbishop, revealed on April 15, 1945. The old cathedral was on the left main entrance of the current cathedral. This church out of wooden was a vestige of the colonial period since built in 1720. It rose formerly on what is nothing any more but one waste ground. This old building burned in 1991 during popular riots.
The episcopal church Holy Trinity is not very interesting on the architectural level, but owes its celebrity with naive paintings of the apses and the side aisles. The biblical representations are transposed in Haitian landscapes. These paintings are regarded as being most representative of the Haitian na5ive art and were carried out by the Haitian painters most known: Bazile, Bottex, Prffte Duffaut, Obin and Bigaud. They go back to 1950.
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The field of March
In 1954, at the time of the 150 ime birthday of the independence of Haiti, one set up on the place of the field of Mars of the statues of the four heroes of independence: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, All Saints' day Louverture and Alexandre Ption. The place which shelters the Dessalines prospect was nicely restored, nontamment the water basins. The equestrian statue of Dessalines, works of the sculptor amriciant Richmon Barthe, dominates the basin top of its pedestal. On the right of the prospect, the monument with foot of Ption on its red granite base, work of the cuban sculptor Joseph Sicre, not yet draws up in a park ouvertu with the unfinished public because. the equestrian statue of Henri Christophe, near Mupanah, is the work of the cuban sculptor Ramos Blanco. The statue in foot of All Saints' day Louverture, with some steps of unknown chestnut, is also a work of Richmond Barthe. It was revealed in 1954 on the place of the same name, which faces the national Palate.
The national palate
On Monday August 8, 1912, at three hours and half of the morning, the town of Port-au-Prince is awaked by a formidable detonation: the explosives magazine of the army of Haiti explodes, carrying with it the national Palate built under president Solomon in 1881 during the civil war which opposed the army of Sylvain Salnave to Cacos. At the conclusion of a public contest, the Haitian architect Georges Baussan, sees himself entrusting, two years later, the project of the new palate.
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| the national palate in Port-au-Prince Haiti |
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| a sight interior of the national palate
the national palate was built in 1881 pennies president Solomon, it is the architect Georges Baussan who sees himself entrusting the realization of the current palate in 1871.
The national palate makes today the pride of the town of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. |
The statue of Catherine Flon, Haitian who has recousu the national flag in Arcahaye at the time of the independence of the country. It was about the French flag which one withdrew the white, symbol of slave monarchy. The statue is located at the end of the Dessalines prospect, at the end of the Paramount cinema.
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The place of Italy and the Mirror with the Dragonflies
Located in the axis of the town hall, reinforcing the monumentality of this one, the place opens on the sea. An immense water level, the Mirror with the dragonflies, placed at the center of an elegant garden, underlines the imposing prospect on bay for Port-au-Prince and the gulf of Gonve. The southern part, which faces the post office, accomodates salesmen of naive paintings which expose works on nettings of the place. The western part, giving on the boulevard of Harry-Truman, became the framework of gigantic popular spectacles since the famous service of Fugees. |
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| The splendid place of Italy illuminates the town of Port-au-Prince |
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The Museum of the Haitian national Pantheon or MUPANAH
Shelter an interesting collection recalling the Haitian history vestiges tanos, Spanish, colonial, and section devoted to the heroes of independence with in particular the silver gun with which Henri Christophe killed himself and the bell having been used to announce independence. It also contains chains of slaves, instruments of torture, sculptures as well as temporary exhibitions of paintings. Another curiosity, the anchor of Santa Maria being 4 m high. It is with this caravel that Christophe Colomb carried out its first voyage in America in 1492 and that it made shipwreck on the northern coast of Haiti.
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