Curepipe Speech

After Port-Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, Curepipe is the second most important city of our island both in terms of size and significance. The name Curepipe is gleaned from an eponymous town in France and today it is found only 18 km or 11 miles to the South of the Capital city of Port Louis. Mauritius is an eye-catching island, floating in the Western corner of Indian Ocean.

The history of Curepipe being settled with its residents deals with the malaria epidemic that had broken out in 1867 in Port-Louis. This actually caused the people of Port-Louis to move out from the capital city in search of a viridescent and secured place. They preferred to settled out in Curepipe although the place was moist and slushy. This is how Curepipe
Les Casernes is a populated place in Plaines Wilhems and although it is less known to people, there are several activities and attractions in this locality that are famous. We are going to explore further on these in this essay.

First of all, as soon as we talk and walk in the locality , of Les Casernes, we have the first view of the Les Casernes Multipurpose Hall. As it is very common in Mauritius, every locality has a community centre where the people assemble together and use the centre as a meeting point. Very often, it is mostly the women who join together in these centers since they provide activities such as sewing, henna and make up application, embroidery, or even baking or cooking food. In the same way, the Casernes Multipurpose Hall serves as a social hub where women meet each other.

Moreover, Jaynath Buldawo, the Supervisor of the Multipurpose Hall confirms that '' before the Community Centre was created, women and the youth did not had anywhere to meet.'' Additionally, in this Multipurpose Hall, fitness activities such as zumba, aerobics, tai chi, yoga among others are organised. As well as, there is a playground where children come to play in the afternoon or in the
Another attraction is the Curepipe Botanic Garden in Curepipe which has been existing since ages. The land on which today extends the Curepipe Garden was granted on 6th January 1757 to Pierre Colas de Berville, an infantry officer in the battalion of Isle de France. The land was then purchased by Jean Baptiste Francois who then sold subsequently. the accquired concession of 638 acres to Rivalz Antoine de Saint Anthony in 1773.

Hence, the garden was finally established in 1870. The principal reason for which it was created was as follows: The Curepipe Garden having an altitude of 550m, was created in order to acclimate the plants which were poorly adapted to the climate of Pamplemousses Garden which is located at a hundred meters above the level of the sea. The garden is primarily a park, which with the altercations of lawns and groves offers good prospects. It is decorated with a lake and crosses a stream whose murmur is accompanied by the cooing of the