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Marigot

Marigot is the main town and capital in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin.

Marigot
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The place

Marigot is the main town and capital in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin. The area has been inhabited since the 17th century and fortifications were erected in 1789. The population has been in decline for decades.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Marigot

10 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
    Maho Beach

    Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the territory of Sint Maarten. It is famous for being adjacent to the Princess Juliana International Airport and is a popular site for tourists and plane watchers, who visit the beach to watch aircraft on final approach land at the airport right at the edge of the water.

    5.5 km · beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pic Paradis

    Pic Paradis or Pic du Paradis is the highest point in a chain of hills in the Collectivity of Saint Martin, an overseas collectivity of France on the island of Saint Martin, located in the Caribbean, with an elevation of 424 m, making it the highest point on the island. It is an Important Bird Area recognised by BirdLife International due to its importance for forest-dependent bird species native to the island.

    2.4 km · mountain in France · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fort Amsterdam

    Fort Amsterdam is a historic fortress on the island of Saint Martin, near the Sint Maarten town of Philipsburg.

    6.9 km · 17th century Dutch fort near Philipsburg, Sint Maarten · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Great Salt Pond

    Great Salt Pond is a 188 ha 465 acres water body in the country of Sint Maarten on the island of Saint Martin in the Dutch Caribbean. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a large seasonal aggregation of laughing gulls.

    5.6 km · salt lake on the island of St Martin · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    University of St. Martin

    The University of St. Martin is a university in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, founded in 1989.

    6.6 km · university · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Martin of Tours' Church, Marigot

    St. Martin of Tours Church is a Roman Catholic parish of the Diocese of Basse-Terre located on rue du Fort Louis in the city of Marigot, St.

    500 m · church located in Saint-Martin, in France · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Martin of Tours' Church, Sint Maarten

    The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious building is located at 51 Voorstraat, Voorstraat, in the city of Philipsburg, Sint Maarten on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of St.

    6.5 km · church in Sint Maarten, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stade Alberic Richards

    Stade Alberic Richards is a multi-use stadium in Sandy Ground, Saint Martin. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    1.6 km · stadium in Sandy Ground, Saint Martin · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mary Star of the Sea Church, Grand Case

    Mary Star of the Sea Church or Grand Case Catholic Church is a religious building affiliated to the Catholic Church located in Grand Case in the territorial collectivity of Saint Martin, a dependent territory of France that consists of the north half of the island of Saint Martin in the lesser Antilles. It should not be confused with the catholic church of the same name but located in the Dutch sector of the island.

    4.1 km · church located in Saint-Martin, in France · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mary Star of the Sea Church

    The Mary Star of the Sea Church is a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the town of Simpson Bay in St. Maarten in the Dutch part of the Caribbean island of St.

    4.2 km · church in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Marigot

Airports
Princess Juliana (SXM), 5 km · Robert L. Bradshaw (SKB), 93 km · Terrance B. Lettsome (EIS), 160 km
Stations
Princess Juliana International Airport, 4.6 km · L'Espérance Airport, 4.8 km
  • Basseterre → Marigot
    94 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 5m · $100–168
  • Beef Island → Marigot
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Gerald's Park → Marigot
    5721 km · quickest by air, 14h 2m · $890–1,370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Marigot

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Marigot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA water taxi service: continuously running boats in a circular route to Philipsburg in either order, to a dock near the east end of Front Street and another opposite the courthouse on Front Street centre, before returning to the cruise ship area.
  • Get inYou'll see long lines when many cruise ships are docked, but the number of water taxis employed rises to meet demand, so you'll rarely have a long wait.
  • Get inMost inter-island ferry service also arrives/departs at Marigot.
  • Get inMakana Ferry offers crossings on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
  • Get inTravelling between St Martin and Sint Eustatius Makana Ferry offers crossings on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Saturday.

From Wikivoyage: Saint Martin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    52 km
  2. 02
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    115 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    167 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    249 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,362 km

If you know how people move in Marigot – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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