Saint-John-Perse Museum - ornate wrought iron façade, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe - stock photo

Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe: Saint-John-Perse Museum (Departmental Museum) - houses a permanent exhibition on Creole costumes and on the poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse (pen name of Alexis Leger), Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1960, whose texts are strongly marked by his time in Guadeloupe - 'Souques-Pagès' villa, where the owners of the Darboussier sugar factory once resided, built in 1880, the building has a metal and brick structure, probably designed as a kit by the Gustave Eiffel workshops for a Louisiana planter. The ship which transported the elements was wrecked in Guadeloupe and the recovered elements were sold at auction - Nozières Street.