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Maison Boucard in Jacmel

Interior in Jacmel

12′ oclock midnight in Port-Au-Prince

BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE OFTEN NOTED FOR ITS GINGERBREAD

Recent trip to the city of Jacmel,Haiti

Built at the bottom of an immense gulf on the caribbean sea, Jacmel is a charming quiet city decorated with french colonia architecture.Its name would come from a flibustier, Jacques Melot, thesis that its old french orthography seems to accredit, Jacmel. Once, one of Haiti’s wealthiest cities, Jacmel has considerable tourist assets. In addition to its architecture and its environment of beaches and mountains, Jacmel offers an abundant craft industry

After Haiti’s independence in 1804, the city takes share in the fight of emancipation of Latin America. On March 12 1806, the precursor of Venezuela independence Fransisco De Miranda creates in this bay the horizontal flag of his country by adding to the yellow of Spain the bands blue and red of the Haitian flag. In 1816 Jacmel accommodates the liberator of Venezuela, Simon Bolivar, who will set out again loaded with arms and ammunition, and accompanied by many Haitians volunteers.