An earthquake brought the cupola crashing down in 1803 and an Englishman replaced it with another in 1829.
"The earthquake simply brought a lot of changes to the surface."
The façade was again reconstructed in 1851 when an earthquake brought it tumbling to the ground.
If earthquakes could bring them together, they should be able to work together when the ground stopped moving.
An earthquake at the day of Friday 15 August 1886 struck the village and brought it to the ground.
Some say the earthquake brought it, some say that's superstitious nonsense.
But the keep was still quite solid, thick-walled enough so that an earthquake could hardly have brought it down.
While this earthquake was very powerful and brought a lot of destruction, national resources were able to cope with the immediate disaster response.
Last year's devastating earthquake brought Haiti to the attention of the global public.
"Even a mild earthquake now could bring these buildings down."