The Lopinot historical site is in the Lopinot Valley, a beautifully green area that looked like a lush green mirage during this boiling hot dry season that we are having. Driving along the Eastern Main Road just turn onto Lopinot road, which is quiet, narrow and winding. The beautiful scenery of the village is breath taking as you drive. Along the road at different intervals were a series of wooden crosses.
Lopinot Historical Site
This site was once a cocoa estate called La Reconnaissance and was owned by a Frenchman named Count Charles Joseph of Lopinot. Here on this sweeping estate is a main house, where the count lived from 1806 to 1819, a cocoa house, a jailhouse, a clay oven and the tombs of the Count and his wife.
A look at Lopinot on a cold day.
For tours to this historical site please call 646-2244
For tours to this historical site please call 646-2244
Lopinot's Great Plantation House and two cocoa drying houses are the only parts of his complex that have been preserved. The Great House has been converted into a small museum which is open to the public from 6am to 6pm.
I'm seriously considering to postpone my vacation abroad and spend it in Trinidad. So many lovely historical sites I need to explore.
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