Habitation Saint-Etienne HSE (Remarkable garden)

A botanical park of 5 hectares along the Lézarde river: the Habitation Saint-Etienne combines all the qualities by offering visitors a unique architectural ensemble dating from the early 19th century. Water is omnipresent, with waterfalls, streams and ponds.

Organised around several thematic zones, this remarkable garden brings together, among other things, a collection of more than 180 plant species from all over the world - royal palms from the West Indies, balisiers, a bamboo grove, an orchard, horticultural trees, red palms, cursed fig trees, cooties, calebassiers, alpinias, coconut palms, a zamana, lemon trees, queen palms - and a large population of birds, including the Kaiali, an endemic green heron. A series of monumental contemporary sculptures on the theme of colonisation, created by two committed artists, Philippe Perrin and Victor Anicet, blend perfectly with this vegetal canvas.

Listed in 2006 in the Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques, the Habitation Saint-Etienne has thus gained a new distinction.

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