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Skip to main content Seychelles Heritage Foundation Toggle navigation Main navigation About Sites Docs News Events Contact Home PreviousNext Cultural heritage connects people to their history and creates bonds between the diverse communities, providing the basis for national integration, unity and prosperity.The Seychelles Heritage Foundation welcomes you to its website. This website is the ideal platform to showcase and promote different aspects of Seychelles cultural heritage and to encourage Seychellois across the world to embrace and celebrate their culture. The site also offers information and news about the functions, mandate, programmes and activities of Seychelles Heritage Foundation.We look forward to public participation and engagement through our website in the hope of developing greater interest towards the promotion and protection of our cultural heritage assets.Benjamine Rose (Ms.)Chief Executive Officer Upcoming event13/04/2022 21/04/2022Promotion and Sales of Cultural Books Browse events 14/07/2021 Discovery Heritage in the community Read more 24/06/2021 Visit to ''when she comes'' trail at Glacis Read more 30/04/2021 Mulberry Tree Read more 23/04/2021 The Unveiling Ceremony of the Liberated Slave Monument. Read more Browse all news Domaine de Val des Pres La Plaine St. Andre Treasure Site Venn's Town Mission Ruins Domaine de Val des Pres La Plaine St. Andre Treasure Site Venn's Town Mission Ruins Did you know? On the 23rd February of 1839, the inhabitants were shocked by the brutal death of Marie Ananie Cauvin, the daughter of corsair Jean Francois Hodoul who was murdered by one of her servants who stole her jewellery. She was 32 years old. On the 14th November of 1966, the Seychelles Supreme Court passed sentence of death on a 50 year-old man. Arthur These who was convicted for the murder of eight-year old Jenny Philomena Isaac at Desroches on July 25th. The trail began on November 2nd with a jury of seven men and a woman. On the 11th April of 1933, the Mahe Prospecting Syndicate Limited was established in the Seychelles for the purpose of exploiting the guano deposits on outer islands. From 1901 to 1960, Seychelles exported 690,000 tons of guano. On the 13th November of 1990, the Duke of Edinburg Prince Philip husband of Queen Elizabeth II, made a stopover in Seychelles and left the next morning. He was welcomed at the airport by the Administration and Manpower, Minister Joseph Belmont and spent the night at the British High Commissioners residence. It was strictly an unofficial stopover. It was the third visit of Prince Philip who was the Patron of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund. In 1956, he planted a coco-de-mer tree in the Botanical Garden. In 1972, he accompanied the Queen on an official visit here to inaugurate the International Airport. On the 23rd October of 1969, the island of Silhouette had its first-ever public film show when the Government cinema Unit entertained the inhabitants with a 2 _ hours show. The schooner Silence carried the projectionist and his assistance, the electricity generator, the film projector, the boxes of film and coils of cable and the screen to Silhouette. On 17th June of 1895, administrator Henry Cockburn Stewart (1844-1899) arrived in the Colony of Seychelles and the inhabitants were taken aback to learn that he was paralyzed in both legs and had to be carried about. On the 7th November of 1768, the Marion Dufresne expedition arrived at the Island of Praslin which it named after Cesar-Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny, Duc de Praslin, the French Minister of Marine. It was on that same day, that the marvellous Coco-de-mer nuts were discovered. On the 25th November of 1992, the Ministry of Health reported the first AIDS case in Seychelles. The announcement was made on SBC radio and there was an interview with an HIV positive man who had developed AIDS. There were 28 known HIV positive cases then. PreviousNext Copyright © Seychelles Heritage FoundationSite by Maven