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Mount Pelée, St. Louis Cathedral, Fort-de-France, Balata Garden and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Martinique and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Active volcano on the Caribbean island of Martinique
Also called Mont Pelée, an active stratovolcano at the northern tip of Martinique, a French overseas department and island in the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc. Its cone is built of layers of solidified lava and hardened ash.
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Church in Martinique, France
Built in the late 19th century in the Romanesque Revival style, the Catholic cathedral of Fort-de-France's Roman Catholic archdiocese, on Martinique, one of France's overseas departments.
Photo: Pierre PONCHEL, CC BY-SA 3.0
Botanical garden in Martinique, French West Indies
A private botanical garden on the Route de Balata, about 10 km outside Fort-de-France, Martinique, in the French West Indies, open every day for an entry fee.
Photo: Mica, CC BY 3.0
Church in Martinique, France
Also simply the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, the co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Fort-de-France, in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, a French dependency in the Caribbean.
Photo: Concord, CC BY-SA 4.0
Stadium in Rivière-Pilote, Martinique
Named Stade En Camée until August 2011: a stadium used for many sports, but above all for football, in Rivière-Pilote, Martinique, one of France's overseas departments.
Photo: Maxo972, CC0
Church in Martinique, France
A Catholic church in Sainte-Marie, a town of Martinique, a French dependency in the Lesser Antilles.
Photo: UHF, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Controlled-access highway in Martinique
The only autoroute of the French system built outside Metropolitan France: a short road, only 7 km (4 mi) long, from Aimé Césaire International Airport in Le Lamentin to Fort-de-France.
Photo: Florian Fèvre, CC BY-SA 4.0
Town hall in Fort-de-France, France
A town hall on Rue Victor Sévère in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in the Caribbean, listed by the French government as a monument historique in 1979.
Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux, CC BY-SA 3.0
Seaside Fortress in Fort-de-France, Martinique
A fortress by the sea in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Today's fort grew out of earlier strongholds on the site, the first from as early as 1638, and in past forms it has been called Fort Royal and Fort de la Republique.
Photo: UHF, CC BY-SA 3.0
Regional nature park in Martinique
One of France's 54 regional nature parks. Covering approximately 63,000 ha (240 sq mi), it takes in more than half of Martinique, overlapping 32 of the island's 34 communes and home to approximately 100,000 people.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
An island in the eastern Caribbean, one of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies. Belonging to the French West Indies (Antilles), it is at once an overseas department and region of France and a single territorial collectivity.
Officially Martinique.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Mount Pelée, St. Louis Cathedral, Fort-de-France, Balata Garden and Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption, Saint-Pierre and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Martinique that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
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