Guadeloupe

Saint François

 
Photo Bertrand VALLET

If the sugar vocation of François Saint is less significant today than in the last century, fishing, food-producing cultivation, the recent cultivation of melon and the development of tourism make of Saint François a commune in everlasting evolution..

Saint François has kept his mills, essential for the beauty of the landscape, and its contests of pulling oxen unchain passions. Today, Saint François country offers a new face: market-gardening, nursery men, specialists in melon or horticulture, manage and export with an exceptional energy.

The borough is of great interest for the visitors by the variety of his architecture and the diversity of its activity with, in the center of the borough, its life around the old market, with its merchants of fruit and vegetables, its small trade and the church,very close, and in the sections around, dances, processions, parades, festivals and local fairs follow one another. It is also the fishing port, where each day fishermen take from their saintoises, purse-fish, cat-fish, carangue or lobster etc... and the many restaurants which along the beach. Regularly, one celebrates the " festival of the sailors " and the " the fish and sea festival ", two rendez-vous that you should not forget, celebrating the products of the sea. Around the avenue of Europe, the tourist activity is very present:the hotels, the marina, the golf, the sea-activities, the casino, the aerodrome offer to people on holiday lots of possibilities of relaxation and leisures. But the reputation of Saint-François comes mainly from its marvellous small beaches which border the shore until the well-known Pointe des Chateaux, situated ten kilometers (6 Miles) after Saint-François, a limestone peninsula plunging in the agitated sea and dominated by a majestic cross

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