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Top 7 sights in Saipan

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   American Memorial Park

   A national park at Garapan commemorating the Marianas campaign of 1944, with the names of over five thousand American and Chamorro dead on a memorial wall. The wetland and beach behind it are part of the park, which most visitors treat as a lawn.

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   Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral (Chalan Kanoa)

   The Catholic cathedral of the Northern Marianas, at Chalan Kanoa on Saipan, and the seat of a diocese covering the whole chain. Most of the population is Catholic, a legacy of three centuries of Spanish rule.

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   Sugar King Park

   A park in Garapan named after the Japanese businessman who built Saipan's sugar industry in the 1920s. His statue survives with a small steam locomotive from the cane railway, a pair of stone lions and a bell tower.

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   Saipan Katori Shrine

   A Shinto shrine in Sugar King Park at Garapan, from the years when Saipan was Japanese and sugar was the island's industry. Its October festival is still conducted by priests who come from the Katori shrine in Chiba.

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   Santa Remedios Church

   A Catholic church on Saipan in the diocese of Chalan Kanoa. Every village on the island keeps its own patron saint and holds a fiesta on the day, which is still the main social event of the year — a habit left by three centuries of Spanish rule.

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   Kristo Rai Church

   A Catholic church on Kopa Di Oru street in Garapan, first built by the Spanish in 1876 and rebuilt after the destruction of 1944. Its name means Christ the King.

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   Saipan Botanical Garden

   A small botanical garden on Saipan, lying about 200 metres above the sea among a patchwork of farmland and scrub. Native and introduced tropical plants of the Marianas are grown in its beds.

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