Large the dependance, the round island, widest satellites of Marie-Gallante archipelago "isolated piece of Grande-Terre" have a hospital climate because of the trade winds circulate there freely. With its its distilling and oxcarts it offers an outline of the Guadeloupe such as it was there is a score of years. The cane is queen there, and the vestiges of sucrotes herissant the dull ones are as many sentinels of the history of the island to the hundred mills.

The Marie-galantais pride herself to produce the best rum of the Antilles, recognizable with her strong alcoholic strength. If they are proud of their island, reputée to be the memory of the archipelago, they know that its future passes by tourism.

Colombus approached the island November 3rd of 1493 and named it Maria Galanta of the name of the one of its caravelles.His sailors called it "El sombrero" because of its roundness and the softness of its relief. Inhabited by the Caribbean, the first French colonists established in 1648, in Vieux-Fort. The begining of the cohabitation was followed by fights without mercy between the two communautés. Since 1946, the island is attached to Guadeloupe. Divided in three communes (Grand-Bourg, Capesterre et Saint-louis).

Various activities are proposed on the island pedestrian excursions, equestrian, scuba-diving, visit of the mangrove in pedalo, canoe, nautical bases, tennis, cultural visits.