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Fort Saint Louis (often hyphenated as Fort Saint-Louis) is a seaside fortress in Fort-de-France, Martinique. The present-day fort has evolved from earlier strongholds that were erected on the site as early as 1638, and has been known in previous incarnations as Fort Royal and Fort de la Republique .
St. Louis Cathedral ( French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) 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 ...
In 1672, Louis XIV ordered the construction of a citadel, Fort Saint Louis, at Fort Royal Bay to defend Martinique. The next year, the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales decided to establish a town at Fort Royal , even though the location was a malarial swamp.
martinique .catholique .fr. The Archdiocese of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France ( Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Petri et Arcis Gallicae; French: Archidiocèse de Saint-Pierre et Fort-de-France ), more simply known as the Archdiocese of Fort-de-France, is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean.
Website. 923wil .com. WIL-FM (92.3 MHz) is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. The station serves the St. Louis metropolitan area. Hubbard Broadcasting is the station licensee, authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. [1] Its transmitter is located in St. Louis, and its studios are in Creve Coeur (with a St. Louis address).
History. One of the oldest radio services in the Eastern Caribbean, [4] RCI was established in 1961 and was one of the country's two stations (along with Radio St. Lucia) during its early years. [3] It was a former division of French-based SOFIRAD [ fr] [5] and a part of Radio Caraïbes International in Martinique / Guadeloupe. [6]
Carriacou and Petite Martinique, also known as the Southern Grenadines, is a dependency (part) of Grenada, lying north of Grenada island and south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Lesser Antilles. [2] Carriacou Island is the largest island of the Grenadines, an archipelago in the Windward Islands chain.
Martinique dancers in traditional costume. As an overseas department of France, Martinique 's culture is French and Caribbean. Its former capital, Saint-Pierre (destroyed by a volcanic eruption), was often referred to as the Paris of the Lesser Antilles. The official language is French, although many Martinicans speak a Creole patois.