citadelle laferiere

Did you know there is a plan in the making to build a cable car line linking Labadie with Citadelle Laferriere? This is part of a tourism improvement plan. Tourists arriving at Labadee via Royal Caribbean cruise will now be able to get to the historic site of Citadelle Laferriere in very safe condition.

This picture seeing here is not an actual picture of the cable car line project between Labadie and Citadelle Laferriere. It is just an idea of what it will look like after completion.

China never withdrew it supports on Haiti since its participation in the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake. Although, they left the UN mission in November 2012, but have maintained their presence with financial cooperation and assistance in important Haitian development works. Recently, on September 25, 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Haitian government and China National Automation Control System Corp (CACS) which would help to construct new buildings for the finance ministry, the tax office and the customs bureau. Furthermore, the Chinese companies will help to improve and expand important arterial roads around the capital city and in the border areas. A cable car will be constructed to link the municipality of Labadie to the archaeological site of Citadelle Laferriere, and the international airport, Toussaint Louverture will be renovated within a few years. These are genuine gesture from China to put Haiti on its path to development. The Citadelle Laferrière or, Citadelle Henry Christophe is a large mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti built between 1805 and 1820 with 365 cannons of varying size, approximately 17 miles (27 km) south of the city of Cap-Haïtien and five miles (8 km) uphill from the town of Milot.

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This is a possible place where King Henri Christophe was buried

Who is Henri Christophe

Henri Christophe (born October 6, 1767, died October 8, 1820), a freed black slave, was one of the great Haitian revolutionary leaders, an aid of Toussaint L'Ouverture and was the army chief of Dessalines (1805) in the capturing of Santo Domingo. He is also remembered as the most famous monarch that Haiti ever had. He was only 21 years old when he became the lieutenant of Toussaint, and fought the army of Napoleon during the War of Independence. Henri waged a savage and inconclusive struggle with Alexandre Pétion, the mulatto supreme who retained control of southern Haiti. He was one among the key players in the 1791 slave uprising in Haiti, including the decisive battle at Vertières in November of 1803 that drove away the French out of Haiti. After the death of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, Alexandre Sabès Pétion became the president of Southern Haiti and Henry was the ruler of the north part of Haiti.

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Here is a picture of Citadelle Laferriere in Milot.

Being the largest fortress in the Western Hemisphere and the 8th wonder in the world, the Citadelle Laferrière has great importance to Haiti. It is the most popular historical attractions in the country.

The Citadelle Laferrière was built as a threat in case the French would consider retaking the island.

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Minister of Culture, Josette Darguste, and Maryse Noel, Ministry of Tourism Director General, helped launch the Citadelle Artillery Museum in November 2013.

The museum showcases an impressive collection of 18th century heavy artillery, cast in iron and bronze, and captured by the Haitian military during invasions by France, Spain, England, and Italy.

The Institute for the Protection of National Heritage funded the project. Its Director General, Monique Rosann, was also in attendance.

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On the site in the town of Choiseul near Milot in the northern town of Haiti, a major tourist reception structure was inaugurated. In the objective to promote tourism in Haiti, specially in the North of the country which is the destination for several historic sites such as the most loved and well-known landmarks, the Citadelle Laferrière, the Haitian government has been making lots of efforts to bring tourism back in Haiti.

The government wants to create more tourist reception centers all over Haiti. It hopes that the reception sites will attract local and foreign investors to create restaurant, hotels, kiosks for crafts merchants.

With this improvements being made for tourist reception in town of Choiseul, Milot, Haiti vision as a tourist destination is now more than just a pipe dream.

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It has been close to three Months sice Michel Martelly has been in power an so far he has not been able to to form a government. In the meantime, the president was in the city of Milot in the north of Haiti to Sans Souci palace and Citadele Laferriere. The aim of the visit is to promote tourism in Haiti. the president took the opportunity while on the ruins of the Sans Souci palace to let the population know the high importance he gives to the tourist sector in Haiti. President Michel Martelly told the crowd that he already made contacts and it is a matter of the local population to help him to make the plan a reality. The message was welcomed by the population of Milot as they feel that the president was clear in helping them to bring tourism in the region of Milot to visit the Sans Souci Palace and the Citadelle Laferiere

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