Must-see attractions in Pointe-à-Pitre

  • Mémorial ACTe

    Pointe-à-Pitre

    Top billing in the French Antilles goes to this huge museum of slavery, opened by President Hollande in 2015. Housed in a spectacular silver-latticework…

  • Musée St-John Perse

    Pointe-à-Pitre

    This three-level municipal museum occupies an outstanding example of 19th-century colonial architecture and is dedicated to renowned poet and Nobel…

  • Marché de la Darse

    Pointe-à-Pitre

    This popular market on the seafront in front of Place de la Victoire is Pointe-à-Pitre's main fruit-and-vegetable market. It's full of characters and you…

  • Cathédrale de St-Pierre et St-Paul

    Pointe-à-Pitre

    Rather than the traditional arches, this attractively painted sand-colored church, nicknamed the ‘Iron Cathedral,’ is supported by iron girders intended…