
Saint Francois with a great variety of architecture and diversity of traditional and tourist activities will satisfy your curiosity and your interest.
The borough, with its life around the old market, its traditional tradesmen, the fishing port where each day the fishermen
return to sell their catch on the spot : the traditional lobsters, coriphenes, tasars..., local restaurants, it’s 18e century church rebuilt in 1932, the Hindu cemetery at "Raisins Clairs".
The Marina for sailing but also its shops, bars and restaurants, the Casino and night clubs.
Dont forget the Carnaval period during february with numbers of parades in all villages and towns.
You can walk among Saint François with mills vestiges of old sugar refineries, the Pointe des Châteaux advancing in the ocean dominated by its huge cross, the many small creeks and beaches : "Baie Olive", "Anse à la Barque", "Anse à la Gourde", "plage des Salines", ...
The closed islandsof "La Désirade", "Marie Gallante", "Petite Terre" or "Les Saintes" are also linked every day at the departure of the fishing port or the Marina by several small ferries or sailing boats. They enable you to discover these marvellous islands and to make the sympaticals boat trips.
Moreover car rental is easy and economical to discover north of "Grande Terre" wild and typical , "Anse Bertrand", "Port Louis", "Petit Canal",... to visit a rhum distillery, to discover the typical fauna and the flora of the mangrove of the "Grand Cul de Sac Marin".
Leave discover the "Basse Terre", the coast under the wind, the beach of Malendure and fish reservation "Cousteau", an expedition around the volcano of La Soufrière or in the falls of the carbet...