MARIE-GALANTE (French West Indies)
The "Great dependance"
Capital
city : Grand-Bourg
Population : 13.900
inhabitants Language : French
and Creole Currency : EUROS Tel code : 590
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.
