La tour Pointe Simon, également connue sous le nom de tour Lumina, est un gratte-ciel situé à Fort-de-France, en Martinique. Culminant à 105,5 mètres avec 20 étages, elle est le plus haut bâtiment de l’île.
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The Rivière Madame is a river of Martinique. It flows into the Caribbean Sea in Fort-de-France. It is 11.6 km long.
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St. Louis Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Martinique, an overseas department of France. It was built in the late 19th-century in the Romanesque Revival style and serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fort-de-France. The church is in the downtown area of the capital Fort-de-France, at the intersection of rue Victor Schœlcher and rue Blénac.
The construction of the cathedral began in the mid-17th century and it opened in 1657. Due to natural disasters, such as fire and earthquakes, that have hit Fort-de-France over the years, the current structure dates only to 1895. It was built with an iron frame in order to withstand any further such events. It is the seventh church to be erected on the site; it was built by Pierre-Henri Picq.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in the Caribbean Sea, standing on Rue Victor Sévère. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1979.
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La Savane is a 12½ acre park located on the Fort-de-France Bay in Martinique. It was formerly known as Jardin du Roi and its first purpose is said to have been to harbor scientific experiments on plants that were new to the colony at that time.
The park has no fence. Its Caribbean gardens face Fort Saint Louis on the east side. On the west side the park borders the Bibliothèque Schoelcher, a Romanesque-Byzantine building initially part of the Paris Exposition of 1889, dismantled, shipped to Martinique and re-built in Fort-de-France. La Savane is home to a statue of Joséphine de Beauharnais, born on the island on 23 June 1763, first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France. The Carrara marble statue, created by Vital Dubray, was vandalized and is now missing its head. In 1991, the statue was symbolically decapitated and spattered with red paint. The acts of vandalism were done on the belief that Joséphine had influenced her husband to issue the Law of 20 May 1802, which reinstated slavery in the French colonial empire.The statue was never repaired by the city administration, and every year more red paint was added to it.In July 2020, the statue was torn down and destroyed by rioters in the wake of the George Floyd protests.The park also shelters a tiny colorful market offering exotic items, souvenirs and snacks.
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The arrondissement of Fort-de-France is an arrondissement in the French overseas region and department of Martinique. It has four communes. Its population is 150,038, and its area is 171.0 km2.