A historic fact is at the origin of its name, indeed the captain of "Saint-Laurent" taken up the island Mascarin in the name of "Roy of France", Louis 13, weapons of which are hung on(collided) on a tree.
The city of La Possession is cut by the sea by 4 ways, what is pity knowing that the first activity of this city was the fare (connecting bun / rowboat Saint-Denis
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La Possession possesses beautiful points of view since the road of la Montagne, it possesses also half of Mafate and of the Big Rowboat.
Mafate is originally Malagasy and means "who smells bad". According to the legend, this name would have been carried(worn) by a brown slave and this one would have taken refuge near the sources of this circus.
You can visit in neighborhood the Big Rowboat with its station, its locomotive and its Lazaret of the XIX-th century. Road of the English which formerly connected the Big Rowboat in The Ownership and to finish the walk in "Ti Train Longtemps" every Sunday.
Excursions are organized in Mafate's circus to have information, please, contact either the office of Tourism or the committee of Tourism in Saint-Denis.
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