Travel Guide Jacmel

At the end of the 44 kilometers and the countless turns of the road of Friendship - built by France some twenty years ago - it opens a short plain that Jacmel extends to the sea. Bordered on the west by the Grande Rivière, the pretty little town is deployed, like a colorful amphitheater, along narrow and narrow streets. Doubts remain as to its origins. Corresponds to this Villanova de Yaquimo, established by Ovando after the massacre of Xaragua in 1503? Was there a strong Indian presence in the area before? These are all questions that remain unanswered today.However, Jacmel decided to celebrate his tricentennial in July 1998, considering that the establishment of a counter of the Company of San Domingo was his true birth certificate. It was then that its commercial vocation dates. A vocation that will be affirmed especially in the nineteenth century with the great coffee boom.In 1850, a company regularly connects Jacmel to Southampton, a little later the Jacmel-Le Havre line is open. The seaside district, made up of warehouses and shops, has barely begun with the great fire of 1895. In 1925, Jacmel was the first city to have electricity, which earned him the nickname "city of light". With the 1929 crisis and the fall in coffee prices, the decline began. François Duvalier will carry the fatal blow by centralizing all the maritime activity of the country in Port-au-Prince.Jacmel, even though it suffered badly from the 2010 earthquake, with 60-80% destruction, remains the ideal destination for short stays, especially during carnival and during the employers' party of May 1. It then gives the illusion of a lively bourgado, a whole tour to the party. Apart from these two moments, one would like to imagine it as a city that cultivates nostalgia for the time when a European steamer was wet on a monthly basis in his bay, and each house was a poet. It is in fact looking to the future and everyone is waking up to its work to build a better future. A city of artists, we discover a multitude of small workshops at every detour of streets. One of the reconstruction projects includes a market dedicated to artists and artisans in the center of the city. The work went well and early 2018, the city had already taken pride in looking.