Qualla: Sainte-Rose, Réunion https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/m/h/p/x/sainte-rose-reunion-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sainte-Rose, Réunion https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion Sainte-Rose, Réunion: Introduction https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Thierry Caro assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. In April 1977, the people of Piton Sainte-Rose evacuated their village and watched a river of molten rock come down the mountain toward their homes. The lava crossed the coast road, buried gardens and houses, and rolled up to the village church. Then something happened that the village would never stop talking about. The flow reached the front steps, pushed through the doorway - and stopped. The walls held. The roof stayed up. The locals renamed the building Notre-Dame des Laves, Our Lady of the Lavas, and to this day the hardened black flood lies frozen around it.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/h/p/x/sainte-rose-reunion-wp/mhpx-sainte-rose-r-union-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sainte-Rose, Réunion: The Church and the Flow https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion/ Photo credit Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0. The eruption came from Piton de la Fournaise, the active volcano that built and still builds the eastern third of Réunion. As the lava advanced on the village, residents fled, and most of what stood in the flow's path was destroyed. The church's survival became a local miracle, b...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/h/p/x/sainte-rose-reunion-wp/mhpx-sainte-rose-r-union-the-church-and-the-flow.mp3 0:06 2 full Sainte-Rose, Réunion: The Wettest Edge of France https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion/ Photo credit Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sainte-Rose faces directly into the trade winds, on the windward side of one of the rainiest islands on Earth, and the numbers are staggering. This is one of the wettest inhabited places anywhere, mentioned in the same breath as Cherrapunji in India and Quibdó in Colombia. Moist ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/h/p/x/sainte-rose-reunion-wp/mhpx-sainte-rose-r-union-the-wettest-edge-of-france.mp3 0:06 3 full Sainte-Rose, Réunion: Where France Ends https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion/ Photo credit Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0. Follow the coast to the Pointe des Cascades and you reach a genuine edge of the world. This headland is the easternmost point of Réunion - and because Réunion is a full department of France, it is also the easternmost point of France itself and of the entire European Union. Stand...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/h/p/x/sainte-rose-reunion-wp/mhpx-sainte-rose-r-union-where-france-ends.mp3 0:06 4 full Sainte-Rose, Réunion: Lava, Wind, and Power https://qualla.com/sainte-rose-reunion/ Photo credit Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0. Life at Sainte-Rose has always meant living with the volcano and the elements, and the village has learned to turn some of that energy to use. In 2004 it became home to the first wind farm on the island, harvesting the same relentless trade winds that bring the rain. It is a smal...

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