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The Best Attractions In Port Louis District

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Port Louis is the capital city of Mauritius. It is mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's economic, cultural and political centre, and most populous city. It is administered by the Municipal City Council of Port Louis. According to the 2012 census conducted by Statistics Mauritius, the population was 149,194.
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  • 1. The Crown Lodge Port Louis
    Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, is a member of the British royal family. Alexandra was born during the reign of King George VI to his brother and sister-in-law, Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. She is a first cousin of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and since her mother was a first cousin of the queen’s husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, she is also his first cousin once removed. Alexandra is the widow of businessman Sir Angus Ogilvy, to whom she was married from 1963 to 2004. As of 18 June 2018, she is 52nd in the line of succession to the British throne; at the time of her birth in 1936, she was sixth.
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  • 3. Blue Penny Museum Port Louis
    The Blue Penny Museum a museum dedicated to history and art of Mauritius, is situated at Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. It opened in November 2001.The museum collection includes the 1847 Blue Penny and Red Penny stamps. The stamps were bought in 1993 for $2,000,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises headed by The Mauritius Commercial Bank and brought back to Mauritius after almost 150 years. For conservation, the originals are illuminated only temporarily. Most of the time only copies are to be seen. The museum, founded by The Mauritius Commercial Bank, also houses the original statue of Paul and Virginia, created in 1881 by Prosper d'Épinay.
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  • 4. Central Market Port Louis
    East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 20 territories make up Eastern Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan – in Central East Africa, are members of the East African Community . The first five are also included in the African Great Lakes region. Burundi and Rwanda are at times also considered to be part of Central Africa. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia – collectively known as the Horn of Africa. The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent, and is sometimes considered a separate region from East Africa. Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles – small island nations in the Indian Ocean. Réunion a...
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  • 5. Le Jardin de Pamplemousse Port Louis
    The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden , commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere. Famous for its long pond of giant water lilies , the garden was first constructed by Pierre Poivre in 1770, and it covers an area of around 37 hectares. The garden, for a long time was ranked third among all the gardens that could be admired over the surface of the globe’, have been known successively as ‘Jardin de Mon Plaisir’, ‘Jardin des Plantes’, ‘Le Jardin National de l’Ile de France’, ‘Jardin Royal’, ‘Jardin Botanique des Pamplemousses’, and during the British colonisation, ‘The Royal Botanical Gardens of Pamplemousses’...
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  • 6. St Louis Cathedral Port Louis
    The St. Louis Cathedral It is a religious building in Port Louis, Mauritius, is the seat of the bishop of the diocese of Port-Louis. It is located in a place where several churches have been successful: Between 1752 and 1756, Jean-François Charpentier of Cossigny built a first building, which soon fall apart, and then was hit by a cyclone in 1760. A new church collapses again the April 9, 1773 as a result of another cyclone. The result of a reconstruction in 1782, to another building soon ended in collapse. Subsequently, the building was restored in 1814 by Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, the first British governor, until they appeared the same recurring structural problems in 1819. Bishop James Leen will be in charge of rebuilding the structure from 1930 to 1933, and It will be held a fina...
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  • 8. Government House Port Louis
    The Government House is the name given to some of the residences of Governors-General, Governors and Lieutenant-Governors in the Commonwealth and the British Empire. It serves as the venue for the Governor's official business, as well as the many receptions and functions hosted by the occupant. Sometimes, Government House is used as a metonym for the Governor or his office. Government House is the term used to describe the official residence of a viceroy or governor who represents the monarch. Because many Commonwealth nations now operate without the British Monarch as Head of State, to avoid confusion, several term their presidential palaces State House or President's House. When Queen Elizabeth II or a member of the Royal Family visits a Commonwealth nation, they will often stay at Gover...
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  • 9. Company Garden Port Louis
    The Dutch East India Company was an early modern megacorporation, founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies in the early 17th century. It was originally established, on 20 March 1602, as a chartered company to trade with India and Indianized Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. The VOC was an early multinational/transnational corporation in its modern sense. The Company has been often labelled a trading company or sometimes a shipping company. However, the VOC was in fact a proto-conglomerate company, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade , shipbuilding, production and trade of East Indian spices, Formosan sugarcane, and S...
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  • 12. Le Craft Market Port Louis
    Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country located in West Africa. Ivory Coast's political capital is Yamoussoukro, while its economic capital and largest city is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea and Liberia to the west, Burkina Faso and Mali to the north, Ghana to the east, and Gulf of Guinea to the south. Prior to its colonization by Europeans, Ivory Coast was home to several states, including Gyaaman, the Kong Empire, and Baoulé. The area became a protectorate of France in 1843 and was consolidated as a French colony in 1893 amid the European scramble for Africa. It achieved independence in 1960, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who ruled the country until 1993. Relatively stable by regional standards, Ivory Coast established close...
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