Five Years After: A Quick Tour Of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — forbes.com

This is the third post on Haiti as a developing tourist destination. For new hotel options in the capital Port-au-Prince, see this week’s earlier posts here and here. Haiti’s domed, wedding-cake of a National Palace (it was the presidential residence) anchored the center of Port-au-Prince until it was damaged beyond repair in the 2010 earthquake, and ultimately razed. Just across from its now-vacant grounds stands a curious building that rises out of the earth. And for good reason; the Musée du Panthéon National (Mupanah) is a museum to be sure, but it was built as a mausoleum for the four heroes of Haitian independence and nation building: Toussaint Louverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe and Alexandre Pétion. One sees their names on streets all over the country today. 

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