 Tours of the village are offered to foreigners and a large festival is put on every January 6 to commemorate the signing of the peace treaty with the British after the First Maroon War.In the plantation colony of Suriname, which England ceded to the Netherlands in the Treaty of Breda (1667), escaped Blacks revolted and started to build their villages from the end of the 17th century.As most of the plantations existed in the eastern part of the country, near the Commewijne River and Marowijne River, the "Marronage" (i.e., running away) took place along the river borders and sometimes across the borders of French Guiana.