Pointe a Pitre Self Guided Walking Tour with Challenges

Discover the city’s main public square and learn about two of its notables by solving challenges with their sculptures. In all, solve 3 challenges here.

Solve a challenge here.

Solve a challenge here.

Walk through this open-air public market on the city pier. Learn about its history, then focus your time and attention on 2 frescoes that highlight the city’s and the department’s history. Solve 2 challenges here.

Learn about the 1967 riots in Pointe-à-Pitre, what caused them and how many deaths resulted from the police backlash. Then turn around to learn about another event related to Guadeloupe: Napoleon's army's first defeat at the hands of the Haitian rebellion. A rebellion sparked by the re-enablement of slavery in Guadeloupe - not wanting that to spread to their own then-French island. Solve 2 challenges here.

Spend 5 minutes here.

Learn about its copy of the Massabielle Grotto in Lourdes, France, and the copy recreated here for pilgrimage purposes. Solve a challenge here.

As you walk up and down the Massabielle hill, see and learn about this new museum in Pointe-A-Pitre focused on the history of slavery, the local population of Guadeloupe and the broader Caribbean.

Solve a challenge here. Spend 10 minutes getting here while also solving 3 other challenges.

Solve a challenge about it before turning around and learning about a bust in the front square, and then about the old high court building, now abandoned. Solve 3 challenges here. Spend 10 minutes here.

Learn about this beautiful small museum and solve a colourful challenge here. Spend 5 minutes here.

Spend 5 minutes here.

Solve a challenge here.

Solve a challenge here.

Learn about this final location, another city museum. Also learn about the person it is named for. Solve your final challenge here, Spend 5 minutes here.