Credits: Commission du Film Guyane
Caption: Bâtiments Historiques Saint-Laurent du Maroni
Credits: Commission du Film Guyane
Caption: Bâtiments Historiques Saint-Laurent du Maroni
Credits: Commission du Film Guyane
Caption: Bâtiments Historiques Saint-Laurent du Maroni
Credits: Commission du Film Guyane
Caption: Bâtiments Historiques Saint-Laurent du Maroni
Credits: Commission du Film Guyane
Caption: Bâtiments Historiques Saint-Laurent du Maroni
Location type
Categories
Environment
City
General presentation
The City of Art and History label was awarded to the City of Saint-Laurent du Maroni on December 26, 2005 by the Minister of Culture and Communication.The cultural project “Cities and Countries of Art and History” combines in its approach all the elements: natural and landscape heritage, architectural, urban and furniture, technical and ethnological heritage, which contribute to the identity of the designated territory. Thus Saint-Laurent could welcome numerpus historical shootings.
Location Condition Type
Well maintained
Location History
The town of Saint Laurent du Maroni is famous in many memoirs for having become the main settlement of the bagne in 1880, when it became a penitentiary commune by decree, more than twenty years after its foundation in 1857-58.
Dominant style
Colonial