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MARIE
GALANTE:
The Great Dependance,
the ''Marvellous''
Capital
city : Grand-Bourg
Population
: 13.900 inhabitants
Language
:
French and Creole
Currency
: French
franc
Tel
code :
590
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Marie-Galante
having a round form as a "flat
cake", was compared to a sombrero
(hat) put on the sea, by Christopher
Colombus.
He called it so in hommage
to one of his ships.
With its sugarcane stretching
into the horizon, the growing
of sugarcane is the essential
agricultural activitie of
the Island, called "the Island
with hundred of Mills".
Some of them are well preserved,
like the "Moulin de Bézard"
in Capesterre.
This Mill was totally restaured
in 1995. The rum of Marie-Galante
is considered to be one of
the best in the Caribbean.
When you finish visiting Marie-Galante,
" you
feel a certain deep feeting
of calm, of absolute serenity".
A feeling
that is deeply and strongly
rooted in the Island.
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