Compañía Garden

The Company's Garden is in the center of the most striking contemporary city of Port Louis. It is a haven of peace and rest, within the relative bustle of a city like this, in front of the Mauritius Institute. This garden is known for its gigantic trees, which have speakers with a strident Indian music and insistent that demonstrates the preeminence of Hindi culture on the island. Its name comes from what formerly belonged to the garden India Company French. Being a swamp at first, the place was later transformed into a botanical park by Mahé de La Bourdonnais in the year 1735, and then repopulated by trees under the British government in the year 1828.