Idea # 96 – Visit of Marie-Galante and its distilleries
Marie-Galante, also known as the “Island of a hundred windmills” is an island in the Caribbean, still fairly open to tourism. From the XVII e century, farmers have made the sugarcane a very important source of income ; face to the competition from beet sugar, sweets were gradually replaced by distilleries, reduced to three today. The white rum agricultural has a name AOC. Taste it !
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- The beaches of Feuillère
- The rum Bellevue
- The old candy Murat
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Where is it?
Marie Galante, Guadeloupe.
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