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PLACE OF RETROCESSION

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Place de la Rétrocession, Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy
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2024
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Formerly called "Place du Bicentenaire". It evokes the return of the island to France after ninety-three years of Swedish possession. The anchor, weighing 10 tons, placed on the base, was found by chance by a tugboat, in 1981. The inscription "Liverpool... Wood... London" can be read on it. The story goes that it came from a ship that sailed in the Caribbean from 1700 to 1825, armed with about sixty cannons. The crew would have cut the anchor and its chain in the bottom of the port of Gustavia to allow to drift...

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