la guada

the Guadeloupe

geography

Population: 395,700 residant Area: 1 628 km² Pib:9,4 Billions of Euro's

the flag

A lot of history

mémorial act

culinary specialties

banane plantain

colombo

dombré

bookit

Famous Guadloupeans

kasav'

Marie Jose Perec

Teddy Riner

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Marie Jose Perec

She is, with the cyclist Félicia Ballanger, one of the two French sportswomen to be triple Olympic champion2, and the only French triple Olympic champion in athletics: in 1992 at the Barcelona Games over 400 meters and twice at the Atlanta Games in 1996 over 400 meters and 200 meters. She is also the second to have achieved the double at the Olympic Games in 200 and 400 meters (the first being the American Valerie Brisco-Hooks), and the first athlete, men and women combined, to have won at two Olympic Games consecutive, the title over 400 meters. The time she set in the final at Atlanta 1996, 48.25, is to this day the seventh best performance of all time and for 23 years, the only time achieved within a second of Marita Koch's world record (47.60 in 1985), as well as the Olympic record for the lap of the track. Marie-José Pérec is also a double world champion in the 400m, in Tokyo in 1991 and in Gothenburg in 1995.

géografie

La Guadeloupe est un archipel des Caraïbes constitué de sept îles, formant une région et un département d'outre-mer français. La partie principale en forme de papillon est composée de deux îles : la Grande-Terre à l'est et la Basse-Terre à l'ouest, séparées par un bras de mer, appelé « la Rivière Salée »

a judo champion

Teddy Riner, born April 7, 1989 in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, is a French judoka competing in the over 100 kg (heavyweight) category, holder of a record of eleven world championship titles, Olympic champion in London in 2012, in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 then by mixed teams in Tokyo 2020, bronze medalist in Beijing in 2008 and in Tokyo in 2021, five-time European champion. He was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 20184. He was the flag bearer for the French team at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, where he won his second Olympic gold medal against the Japanese Hisayoshi Harasawa, then becoming the most successful judoka in history and thus renewing his supremacy in the field of judo.

Kassav'

Kassav' est un groupe de musique fondé en Guadeloupe en 1979 sur la base d'un rythme de gwo ka guadeloupéen, du ti bwa martiniquais et du mendé. Le mot « kassav » fait référence à la cassave (galette de manioc) en créole

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassav%27

slavery in the heart of Guadeloupe

the history of Guadeloupe is marked by the massive deportation, starting in the 1670s, of black African slaves, ancestors of the majority of the current population. This French island in the Antilles (Caribbean Sea) located approximately 600 km to the northern coast of South America, 600 km east of the Dominican Republic and 950 km southeast of the United States was invaded several times by the English and experienced the French Revolution longer than Martinique .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_la_Guadeloupe

a special museum

the memorial act is a museum that talks about slavery in Guadloupe. In this museum you can even exhibit chains and other objects from the period. The museum allows you to reflect on the past and understand the suffering of slaves.