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Once past the suburban communities outlying the capital, the N2 passes through a series of fishing villages before reaching Carbet , the spot Columbus claimed for Spain in 1502. North of here, two roadside black-sand beaches blend into one another, the first of which, Anse Turin , appeared in some of Paul Gauguin's works. He and his friend Charles Laval stayed in a nearby slave cottage during a brief stint in Martinique in 1887, when the two were recovering from malaria. While the shack is long gone, the bizarre Musee Paul Gauguin (daily 9am-5.30pm; ?3.05), off to the right before the tunnel to St-Pierre, commemorates Gauguin's short residency with reproductions of his works by local artists and copies of bitter letters to his wife. Immediately north on the N2 are the superb ruins and grounds of the pre-1643 Habitation Anse Latouche (Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm; ?2.52, ?1.75 children), the island's largest sugar plantation in its heyday. The grounds and buildings were destroyed by Mont-Pelee's 1902 eruption, but vestiges of a 1716 aqueduct and dam are still visible - the only examples of their kind on Martinique.
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