THE FORTRESS

Haiti became the world’s first blackled republic when it threw off French colonial control in the early 19th century. One of its most visited sites today is the mountain-top fortress Citadelle Laferrière, built between 1805 and 1820 to keep the newly independent nation safe from French incursions.

It stands at the top of the mountain Bonnet a L’Eveque, on the north coast, and today symbolises the “slave revolution“and independence.