Yamoussoukro:
If Abidjan remains the economic capital of the country, Yamoussoukro became the political capital in 1983. Today the city has about 300,000 inhabitants. At the beginning of the last century Yamoussoukro was still an insignificant village of barely 500 inhabitants. It is the hometown of the first president of Côte d'Ivoire after independence: Houphouet-Boigny.
It is a modern, airy city, with large and wide avenues lined with unreal administrative buildings. Because this city is oversized, everything is much too big, too high, too wide. It sometimes looks like a ghost town that the tropical vegetation around it is trying to regain. Weird!
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| Yamoussoukro, in the city. |
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| Yamoussoukro, the mosque. |
The Basilic:
Notre Dame de la Paix is a monumental construction, monumentally crazy. It is the fruit of the megalogamia of the first president. Officially financed by the private wealth of Houphouët-Boigny and maintained by the income (interest) of one of his bank accounts in Switzerland. I will abstain from commenting!
The dome, or rather the cross at its summit, rises to 158.10 m in height. This makes it the second highest church in the world after Ulm Cathedral (161.53 m). It was built between 1985 and 1987. It is not a copy of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, as we sometimes hear, but it is very strongly inspired.
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| Arriving at Yamoussoukro, 10 km before the city. |
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