As part of the program of safeguarding of national heritage initiated by the Government, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, will travel Tuesday in Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite, in order to launch the restoration work on the Place of the Belle Rivière, better known as the name "365 doors Palace".

The Prime Minister who will be accompanied among others by Mrs. Monique Rosann, the Director of the Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), will take advantage of his presence in the Artibonite department, to inquire about the progress of various projects implemented by the government team. The Head of Government promises to restore the historical monuments in order to promote sustainable tourism.

Learn more about the "365 doors Palace" :

"The Palace of the Belle Rivière, was built in 1820 by Louis Dupeyrac to serve of residence to Henri 1er, then king of Haiti. Still under construction at the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 1820, it remained unfinished. The Palace of the Belle-Rivière, is the second largest palace built by Christophe after that of Sans Souci in Milot.

The palace has a rectangular plan 68 m long and 11 m wide. At its western facade is backed by a large wide roundhouse 12 meters in diameter. The palace walls are of stone masonry and clay bricks bound by lime mortar.

During the first campaign to safeguard our historic monuments, major restoration work was undertaken in 1932. On this occasion, it was decided to equip the ground floor of the palace with a roof in corrugated metal supported by a wooden frame. The structure of the palace, then in ruins, was consolidated, its walls coated with a smear of cement and its many windows with wooden shutters. Although this intervention was not consistent with the rules of the art of restoration, it has helped curb the deterioration of the historic monument, ensure its protection against the weather and allowed to transmit to future generations, with the means and technical knowledge of the time, a great witness of the vision of Henri Christophe.

By presidential decree dated 23 August 1995, the Palace of the Belle Rivière was declared National Heritage on favorable technical opinion of ISPAN."

HL/ HaitiLibre