CITY PAVILION

Close to the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul church, this former presbytery, built in 1806, was destroyed by the earthquake of 1843. In 1845, it was rebuilt in wood with a slate roof... until the cyclone of 1928. The current building is representative of West Indian architecture, with an all-wood frame and an important detail on the façade: its triangular pediment. The latter is surrounded on three sides by a cast-iron gallery and stands in the center of a pretty garden. The two-storey gallery dates from the 1940s. The building has two entrances; the one facing the Place de la Victoire has a volcanic stone staircase.

Once privately owned, then a parish property until 1992, it is now a listed building. Now the Pavillon de la Ville, the first floor houses the architecture and heritage interpretation center and temporary exhibitions. The first floor is devoted to permanent exhibitions on the evolution of the city. The Pavillon de la Ville also showcases some remarkable items that bear witness to the liturgical life of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral. Since 2023, the Pavillon has been home to the Kaz a Condé association, a place for exchange and reflection to promote the work of author Maryse Condé, who won the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018 and died in 2024, and to support authors and artists. Cultural evenings and sightseeing tours around the novelist are organized.