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Saint Leu
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Saint-Leu in Reunion is opened on the sea, but sheltered, with its small fishing port and its beach shielded from the coralienne band(strip).


The coffee(cafe) and the cotton made(did) the fortune in the 18th century, there are numerous vestiges of it and some buildings(ships) of the East India Company among which the city hall, Our Lady of the Salette and its famous pélerinage of September 19.


numerous places of interest to be visited :

- The last lime kiln,
- The City hall, the building(ship) of the company of India,
- The Chapel of Salette,
- Firm Coral,
- The battery(drum kit) of the Sans culottes,
- temple Tamoul du Portail,

- Stella Matutina's museum, agricultural and industrial museum opened in the ancient(former) sugar factory,
- The Farm of Ostrich with Hook Saint-Leu,
- The Botanical Conservatoire of Mascarins ,
- The exotic garden...


The prompters, particularly spectacular natural phenomena : in holes of cooled lave, waves rush with crash and spatter in big geysers which can reach(affect) 10 15 metres.The spotlight, world-famous for the vague and pleasant surfers, temperature of the water all year long. The wave of Saint leu (a "left") is the incontested star of réunionnais sports.

For any information or demand of documentation, please , contact the Committee of the Tourism of Reunion.

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