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In Petit-Canal are located the slave steps. An emblematic monument of the territory which has been the subject of a real mystification and heritage since the 1970s-1980s. At the bottom of the village of Petit-Canal, the site called Slave Steps is a very visited place whose history is unknown. “There is no history,” says […]
While Guadeloupe is better known for is pristine crystal clear warm waters and white sandy beaches you can’t help but notice a drink in most people’s hands. It’s not just any old drink either. Most of the people are appreciating the local alcoholic drink called “ti punch” which is a mix of rum, sweet honey and […]
The departmental museum of archeology Ameridian, the museum Edgar-Clerc, offers an incursion to the time of the first men who populated the territory of Guadeloupe. “We really have a museum implanted in an important landscape environment,” explains Isabelle Gabriel, public director at the Edgar-Clerc Museum in Moule. Even before entering the building we are surrounded […]
A Little History First During his second trip to America, seeking fresh water in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe. He called it Santa María de Guadalupe de Extremadura, after the image of the Virgin Mary venerated at the Spanish monastery of Villuercas, in Guadalupe, Extremadura. The expedition set […]
A Little History On The Rum Pere Lebat The rum of Père Labat is an agricultural rum produced in Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante in Guadeloupe. For more than a century, the small distillery of Poisson produces the rum of Father Labat. It produces around 300,000 liters of rum each year1 of […]
A Little History Of The Rum Bellevue The rum of the Bellevue estate is an agricultural rum produced in Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante on the island of Marie-Galante in Guadeloupe. The Rum of the Bellevue estate is produced by the Bellevue Agricultural Rheumatics S.A directed by Hubert Damoiseau. Acquired recently by the Bardinet Group, the distillery […]
A Little History On The Rum Damoiseau The Damoiseau Distillery is located in the town of Moule in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). They produce Damoiseau agricultural rum The agricultural estate and the corresponding industrial plant of Bellevue, located in the town of Moule in Grande-Terre, were founded in the late nineteenth century by a […]
A Little History On The Rum Severin The rum Séverin is an agricultural rum from Guadeloupe, produced by the distillery Séverin, founded in 1928 by Henri Marsolle, located in the town of Sainte-Rose in the north Basse-Terre At the beginning of its history, the agricultural domain was called Habitation Bellevue. That’s when round the […]
A Little History On The Rum Longuteau Longueteau rum is an agricultural rum produced in Sainte-Marie, district of the municipality of Capesterre-Belle-Eau in Guadeloupe in the French West Indies The Longueteau distillery was founded by Henri Longueteau in 1895 on the “Domaine du Marquisat” in Sainte-Marie by the exploitation of the surrounding sugar cane […]
A Little History About Montebello Rum The rum distillery Montebello was created in 1930 by the Dolomite family. It was then called the Carrère Distillery, the name of the area in which it is located, near Petit Bourg. The period of the Second World War is difficult for this distillery, whose activity declined slowly […]
The History Of Rum Bologne The Bologne distillery has kept the name of the owners of the sugar factory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was a family of Protestants, named De Bologne, who was originally from Dauphine and who emigrated to the Netherlands in the sixteenth century and then became Dutch. Some […]
