ClasséPresbytery · protected 1992Ancien presbytère Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-PaulPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maison dite Maison Pagès, actuellement musée Saint-John Perse · Photo: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.017historic monuments
History of Pointe-à-Pitre · Monuments historiques
17 historic monuments, 6 classé
For every 10,000 residents Pointe-à-Pitre counts 11 monuments, more per resident than 87% of compared French towns, against 2.5 in the median compared French town. The oldest monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre date from the 19th century. We have photos of 13 of Pointe-à-Pitre’s monuments.
Monuments historiques
17
11 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
6
the highest protection
Inscrit
11
the second level
Oldest part
19th c.
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
0.4%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Pointe-à-Pitre in 13 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Externat Saint-Joseph-de-ClunyClassé
Ancien presbytère Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-PaulClassé
Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-PaulClassé
Hôtel de ville (ancien)Classé
Marché central couvertClassé+8See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Map
Where Pointe-à-Pitre’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscritWithin 400 m of Marché central couvert
6 of 6classé monuments stand within 400 m of Marché central couvert, with 15 of the town’s 17 monuments.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
17 monuments by protection
6 Classé11 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point.
Classé
6 classé monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 2 of the 6 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
ClasséChurch · protected 1978Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-PaulPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséSchool · protected 1988Externat Saint-Joseph-de-ClunyPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséHouse · protected 1979Maison dite Maison Pagès, actuellement musée Saint-John PersePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséCommercial building · protected 1992Marché central couvertPhoto: LPLT · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Inscrit
11 inscrit monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
InscritIndustrial building · protected 2008Ancien entrepôtPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritSchool · protected 1979Ancien Lycée Carnot, actuellement Faculté de lettresPart of the building is protectedPhoto: LPLT · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritBarracks · protected 1995Ancienne caserne d'infanterie, actuellement sous-préfecturePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Lordphoenix · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritHouse · protected 1995Maison natale de Saint-John-PersePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritMonument · protected 1979Musée SchoelcherPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Grook Da Oger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritResidence · protected 2008Pavillon l'HerminierPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritIndustrial building · protected 2006Usine sucrière DarboussierPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Monument · protected 1979Ancienne bibliothèque Mortenol, actuellement école maternellePart of the building is protected
Monument · protected 2009Cinéma La RenaissancePart of the building is protected
Town hall · protected 2011Hôtel de Ville
Public building · protected 2013Capitainerie
What’s protected
Houses and homes are the largest group in Pointe-à-Pitre
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes3
Public & civic3
Industrial2
Religious buildings1
Military & fortified1
Shops & trade1
Houses & homes: 3 of 17 monuments (18%). 1 is a religious building, 1 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 6 have no domain on the list.
How old
How old Pointe-à-Pitre’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.0
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.0
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution0
19th century 1801–190013
20th century and later since 19014
The oldest dated: Ancien entrepôt (19th c.).
When protected
4 of Pointe-à-Pitre’s monuments were protected in 1979
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1960198020002020
First protected, in 1978: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul. 4 were protected in 1979 alone. 2 have been added since 2011.
Age of homes
0.4% of homes in Pointe-à-Pitre were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
0.4%
Before 1919
4%
1919–45
32%
1946–70
47%
1971–90
10%
1991–2005
6.2%
2006 on
Pointe-à-PitreMedian compared French town
0.4% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (47%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Born before 1900
23 people born in Pointe-à-Pitre before 1900
The 20 best known on the line, and eight of them below.
Eugène Chapus
Jean-Baptiste Gibert
Jean-Baptiste Clément Dulac
Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt
Louis-Gaston de Sonis
Adolphe Belot
Gabriel Bouscaren
Émile Carron
Jules Cardoze
Germain Casse
Émile Réaux
Charles Lanrezac
Auguste Isaac
Gaston Gerville-Réache
Gaston Sarlat
Pierre Capest
Camille Mortenol
Hégésippe Jean Légitimus
Hildevert-Adolphe Lara
Saint-John Perse
1800182518501875190019251950
SM
Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt1823–1880 · Guadeloupean politician
LG
Louis-Gaston de Sonis1825–1887 · French army officer
AB
Adolphe Belot1829–1890 · French playwright and writer
GC
Germain Casse1837–1900 · French politician
CL
Charles Lanrezac1852–1925 · French general
GG
Gaston Gerville-Réache1854–1908 · Guadeloupean politician
CM
Camille Mortenol1859–1930 · French soldier
HJ
Hégésippe Jean Légitimus1868–1944 · Member of French National Assembly
Everyone born in Pointe-à-Pitre Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Towns its size
Pointe-à-Pitre has the 8th most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 14,600 to 15,500 residents, by historic monuments.
Pointe-à-Pitre17
#8 of 41for monuments per resident (11 per 10,000). Most per resident: Paris 1er, Dinan and Bar-le-Duc.
The median town of these has 4. 4 of the 41 have none.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Pointe-à-Pitre
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-à-Pitre | 15,040 | 17 | 6 | — |
| Les Abymes | 51,055 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Le Gosier | 27,757 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Baie-Mahault | 30,924 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Petit-Bourg | 24,665 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lamentin | 18,628 | 9 | 6 | — |
| Goyave | 7,565 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Pointe-à-Pitre in brief
Per resident, Pointe-à-Pitre has more historic monuments than 87% of compared French towns. All told, the list holds 17 historic monuments, 6 of them classé, including Maison dite Maison Pagès, actuellement musée Saint-John Perse. Marché central couvert sits at the heart of it all, with 6 of the town’s classé monuments within 400 m. Maison dite Maison Pagès, actuellement musée Saint-John Perse is one of the Maisons des Illustres, the homes of people who left their mark on France.
Only 7 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments. Of the 17 with a date, 13 come from the 19th century. The oldest is Ancien entrepôt, from the 19th century.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Pointe-à-Pitre
How many historic monuments are there in Pointe-à-Pitre?
The Culture ministry lists 17 historic monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre: 6 classé and 11 inscrit.
Which monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre are classé?
6, among them Ancien presbytère Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Externat Saint-Joseph-de-Cluny, Hôtel de ville (ancien), Maison dite Maison Pagès, actuellement musée Saint-John Perse and Marché central couvert.
How old are the monuments of Pointe-à-Pitre?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 19th century.
When were monuments in Pointe-à-Pitre first protected?
The first in 1978, the latest in 2013.
How old are the homes in Pointe-à-Pitre?
0.4% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.