| Grapefruits | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  Mauritius |
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| Area | 178,7 km² |
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 20 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S 57 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Grapefruits is a town in Mauritius located north of Port Louis.
Understand
The city is particularly famous for its Botanical Garden which lists a very large number of floral species. To find out more, go to the section See below.
To go
By car or taxi
Pamplemousses and its Garden are in the immediate vicinity of the M2 motorway which crosses Mauritius, making the small town easily accessible by car. In addition, the Garden has a free car park with a capacity of over 200 spaces at the entrance, so you will have no trouble finding a space, even if you cannot find spaces to park in town.
By bus
Many buses serve the small town of Pamplemousses. The greatest number of departures are from Port Louis the capital, but it is also possible to take the buses coming from the district of Flacq and the northern region of the island and going towards Port-Louis because these lines must pass through Pamplemousses.
Circulate
See
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden named after the former Prime Minister of Mauritius and father of independence.
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The place has also taken several names over time: garden of my pleasure, garden of plants, royal botanical garden. If the Jardin de Pamplemousses is one of the most used appellations, it is because the park is located in a district of the city of Pamplemousses.
At the origin of this site is Pierre Poivre, royal steward who left his mark on the town of Port-Royal. Coming from a trading family, Pierre Poivre was initially a missionary. Party in China to evangelize in particular Canton and Macau, he is then recalled by his superiors. He completely changed lanes and found himself aboard a French East India Company boat. Wounded following an attack on a British ship, he was welcomed on it where he had to have his hand amputated. Landed at Jakarta, at the time of "Batavia", he discovered the spices which were sold there, in particular nutmeg and cloves, rare and very expensive spices. He then decided to establish these species on Mauritius, then a French possession under the name Isle-de-France. In this perspective, he must first return to France to convince the East India Company, but his ship was attacked and the adventurer was imprisoned by the British in Guernsey.
Released in 1748, he tried twice to acclimatize the plants but in vain, one of his attempts failing following a plot by the director of the trial garden of Isle-de-France. Back in France, he published a book, "The travels of a philosopher", which was very successful and was ennobled by King Louis XV. He was appointed royal intendant of Mauritius and, not giving up his idea, finally created the Jardin de Pamplemousses in 1766. He introduced plants from elsewhere and brought back Moluccas Islands (eastern Indonesia) nutmeg and clove trees ...
Pierre Poivre's dream has come true and you can still admire his work while walking in the Jardin de Pamplemousses. Composed of plants and trees from various horizons (China, India ...), the garden has a multitude of exotic varieties (baobabs, lotus, etc.) and original species such as the talipot which would flower only one times every 60 years.
- 1 Pamplemousses Garden
