Théâtre de Saint-Pierre

Local nameAncien théâtre
LocationAntilles

The Théâtre de Saint-Pierre, also known as La Comédie, was a theater in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, active from 1786 to 1902. It was a famous center of culture in the West Indies for over a century. Destroyed in the volcano eruption of 1902, its ruins became a historical monument and a site for tourists.

Originally, theatre companies from France performed in temporary localities on tours to Martinique. From 1780, there where demands to the authorities to provide the colony with a permanent theatre. At that point, there where already theatres in the cities of Saint-Domingue since the 1760s and two in Guadeloupe, and a theatre was considered to be an essential hall mark of civilisation and sophistication.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théâtre_de_Saint-Pierre

Address Martinique

Coordinates 14°44'48.787" N -61°10'33.648" E

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