The port

Following along Ratsimilaho boulevard, you can enjoy a very nice view on the port. It was already existed before the colonization, it is made by Franco-Germany consortium in 1926 but it was also among of the cyclone 1927 victimes and three years later tehy continued again the construction and then it was inaugurated in [...]

The mosque

This first mosque was made in 1888, but it was still in wood. Muslims religion is divided in lot of branches such as: Sunnis and Shiite,…. This first mosque is for the Sunnis surtis muslims in the beginning. In the middle of 19th centuary, the Shiite, the more precisely is a Bohras, according to their [...]

Saint Joseph Cathedral

This cathedral is dated in 1930. It is the first catholic church here in Tamatave, which is erected at this place in 1876 but it was also among of the victims during the passage of very highgraded category of cyclone in 1927. But was replaced this actual cathedral, and it’s inaugurated in 1932. After [...]

The old continental hotel

This very old building that you see in the picture is an ancient hotel. In the beginning it was continental hotel, then french hotel, it was made with very light infrastructure in the beginning such as wood, ravimpontsy, falafa,….There was a lot of settler who stayed there when they arrived at the port in that [...]

Tamatave’s town tour

This is a town tour number one here in Tamatave. Let’s start from nautical center, there where is Ratsimilaho street is started.

Point number 1: RATSIMILAHO BOULEVARD (Street)
This grand boulevard is longsided on Indian Ocean. From nautical center until hopitaly be, literally translated, means a big hospital. But before its destruction in 1986 by Honorine cyclone, [...]