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The House Folio and its garden, built in the XIX-th century in the heart of Hell-Bourg's ancient(former) health resort in 1000 m of height are registered on the inventory of the ancient memorials of the Department.
The village was then very fashionable. The governor came there in holiday resort, followed by the big Creole families which lived in it in charming girls " compartments of change of air " in the sophisticated style, which testify even today, splendors of the colonial company(society) of this time. The House Folio is a historic witness of this time. Restored in the identical and lovingly maintained, she(it) offers to the guests an authentic decoration for an evocation of the life to Hell-Bourg in the time of the Governors.
The garden symbolizes the art " to live Creole " of this time, with its romantic " guetali ", its fountain of the " 3 graces "(favours), and its paths paved by old stone where escape the exotic smells of plants with flavor, aromatic or medicinal: geranium, to vétiver, patchouli, curcuma,
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citronella, four spices... The tropical exuberance gives to the vegetation its aspect mess and nature which makes(does) the charm of " Creole garden ".
The House, wooden hard constuite of the country considered rotproof, she(it) resisted for 1 and a half-st century to the assaults of cyclones and insects. The(its) state of coolness is remarkable. He(it,she) decoration, valances and geometrical motives, reflect well the sophisticated taste of time. Inside you will discover said furniture " Creole style " made in the luxurious drink of colour of the soil and the dependences a pavilion of which shelters a small exhibition of durable articles of time and craft of the soil today.
The visit ends by an evocation of the history of the house of the village, with its famous "Chestnuts", its hydropathic establishment, its military hospital and his(her) rich persons having hydrotherapy. Good visit!
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