AI generatedPort-au-Prince
Haiti · Ouest · 30 m
Short description of Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince spreads up a steep bowl of hills from a bay on the Gulf of Gonâve and holds a quarter of the population of Haiti. The Musée du Panthéon National is built underground beneath a garden and keeps the anchor of the Santa María, the crown of Henri Christophe and the pistol he shot himself with. The Marché en Fer is a cast-iron hall shipped from France in the 1890s and rebuilt after the earthquake. Sculptors in the Grand Rue work scrap metal and car parts into figures. Pétion-Ville sits cooler on the slope above the city.
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Best time to visit: December – April
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- Marché en Fer
- Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien
- Grand Rue metal sculptors
- Pétion-Ville restaurants and galleries
- Champ de Mars and the palace grounds
- Ruins of Notre-Dame cathedral
- Griot and pikliz at the street kitchens
- Rara and kompa music in the bars
- Barbancourt rum distillery tour (November - May)
- Fort Jacques above the city(Day trip)
- Views over the Gulf of Gonâve from the hills
- Site of the Sainte-Trinité cathedral murals