Pétionville

Worth seeing in and around Pétionville

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Christopher Hotel

   The Christopher Hotel was a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake on 12 January 2010. Prior to its destruction, it was a 3-star, 74-key, 5-story hotel built into the hillside, overlooking the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince.

   4 km · building · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Quisqueya University

   Quisqueya University, founded in 1988, is a private Haitian university located in Port-au-Prince. The coordinator of the university's establishment and its first rector, from 1990 to 1995, was Jacques-Édouard Alexis who became Prime Minister of Haiti in 1999.

   4 km · university · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University Notre Dame of Haiti

   The Université Notre Dame d'Haïti is a Roman Catholic university located in Port-au-Prince, Haïti. It was founded in 1996 and is organized in five faculties.

   5.5 km · Roman Catholic University in Haiti · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Université Caraïbe

   The Université Caraïbe is a university located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It was founded in 1988 and is organized in six Faculties.

   4.9 km · University · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple

   The Port‑au‑Prince Haiti Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Pétion‑Ville, a suburb of Port‑au‑Prince, Haiti. It was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on April 5, 2015, during general conference.

   2.6 km · Temple · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Street parades. On Sunday nights before Carnival, there are frequently street parades with live or recorded music and dancing. For non-Haitians, it may be safer to watch from a distance, but it's still exhilarating to see and hear. These can go very late (01:00-02:00 into Monday).

From Wikivoyage: Pétionville, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

There are a number of good restaurants in Pétion-Ville.

1. 01
   Presse Cafe

   28 Rue Rigaud (on Rue Riguad between Clervenau and Faubert, across from Mr.

2. 02
   Quartier Latin
3. 03
   The View

From Wikivoyage: Pétionville, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Pétionville

Airports

Toussaint Louverture (PAP), 8 km · Cap Haitien (CAP), 135 km · Cibao (STI), 203 km

Stations

assassination of Jovenel Moïse, 2 km · Pétion-Ville, 300 m · Hotel Oloffson, 5.7 km · University of Port-au-Prince, 4.6 km · Lycée Alexandre Dumas, 3.8 km

• Cap Haitien → Pétionville

  139 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · $16–22
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• Santiago → Pétionville

  5781 km · quickest by air, 14h 12m · CLP$472,620–732,590
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• Santo Domingo → Pétionville

  252 km · quickest by road, 6h 32m · $27–37
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