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Saint-Pierre
FOLLOWSaint-Pierre, Martinique
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OVERVIEW
Saint-Pierre was the cultural capital of the French Antilles, known as the Paris of the Caribbean. At about 8am on 8 May 1902 a pyroclastic flow from Mount Pelée destroyed the city in a few minutes, killing roughly 28,000 to 30,000 people. Ruins of the theatre, the church and the prison cell of Ludger Sylbaris — one of the very few survivors, saved by the thick walls of his cell — still stand.
HISTORY
The eruption transformed volcanology; the term "peléan eruption" comes from it.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
The ruins are reported by residents and visitors as a place where the morning of the eruption is still felt. The scale of the event is documented in exhaustive detail.
VISITING
The ruins are open and integrated into the modern town; the volcano museum interprets the eruption.
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