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Top 10 sights in Sainte-Marie

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   St. Denis Cathedral, Réunion

   The cathedral of Saint-Denis, completed in 1832 in a Creole reading of classical architecture, with a palm-lined square and fountain in front of it. It is the seat of the diocese of Réunion.

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   Noor-e-Islam Mosque

   A mosque in the centre of Saint-Denis built in 1905 by the island's Indian Muslim community, and generally counted the first mosque built on French soil. Its green and white minaret stands over the main shopping street.

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   L'Âme de la France

   A statue of a woman raising both arms, made by Carlo Sarrabezolles in three versions between 1921 and 1930 — plaster, stone and bronze — as a war memorial. It stands three metres high.

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   Jardin de l'État

   A botanical garden in Saint-Denis laid out between 1767 and 1773, where Pierre Poivre established the spice plants he had brought from the East Indies. The natural history museum inside it opened in 1855.

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   Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Délivrance

   A Catholic church in the Petite-Île quarter of Saint-Denis, built between 1893 and 1897 of dressed stone and lime in a Tuscan Gothic manner, and listed as a historic monument in 1996.

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   Grand marché de Saint-Denis

   A crafts market on Rue Maréchal-Leclerc in central Saint-Denis, on the French island of Réunion. The whole building was listed as a historic monument on 21 August 1997.

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   Cap Noir

   A cliff more than a thousand metres high at La Possession, on the French island of Réunion. Part of the Piton des Neiges massif, it separates the Dos d'Âne plateau to the north from the bed of the Rivière des Galets to the south and lies in the core zone of Réunion National Park.

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   Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette

   A Catholic chapel at Sainte-Marie in the north of Réunion, listed as a historic monument in 2012, in the plain stone style of the island's nineteenth-century parishes.

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   Safu ya Ushindi (Réunion)

   A commemorative column on Réunion raised to the islanders who died in war, standing in a public square as the focus of remembrance ceremonies.

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    Fontaine de la Cathédrale

    A monumental fountain in central Saint-Denis, on the French island of Réunion, facing the cathedral. Palm trees hold up the basin with four sculpted figures leaning around it; it was listed as a historic monument on 13 October 1975.

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