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St. Kitts and Nevis - Historic sites


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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 46 attractions in St. Kitts

This 38 acre fortress, dubbed "the Gibraltar of the east" is situated on the upper slopes of an 800 foot high mountain with superb views all around.  Six other islands can be seen on a clear day and...

Attraction type: Historic site; National park
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #7 of 18 attractions in Basseterre

This old plantation estate houses the Caribelle Batik works. You can watch colorful, tie-dye clothes being made.

Attraction type: Historic home; Factory tour; Garden
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #3 of 12 attractions in Charlestown

The Bath Hotel in Nevis is considered to have been the first tourist hotel in the Caribbean. Built in 1778, it was a rather grand "spa" hotel, and it rapidly became a very successful venture...

Attraction type: Historic site; Hot spring/geyser
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #11 of 18 attractions in Basseterre

The old cemetery has graves dating back to 1724.

Attraction type: Religious site; Historic site; Cemetery; Architectural building
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #6 of 12 attractions in Charlestown

The great American statesman Alexander Hamilton was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1757. He spent his childhood on the island up until the age of eight, when he and his mother moved to the...

Attraction type: Historic home; History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #17 of 46 attractions in St. Kitts

The first permanent West Indian English settlement. Find old Indian pictographs on nearby boulders.

Attraction type: Historic site
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #18 of 46 attractions in St. Kitts

Folklore holds that this dried river bed once flowed blood for three days following a slaughter of Carib Indians by British and French colonial forces.

Attraction type: Canyon; Historic site
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This interesting, supposedly haunted ruin, already has an Inside page and photo at: http://www.tripad...

Attraction type: Historic home; Mysterious site
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Where 2,000 Carib Indians were slaughtered by colonial British and French troops in 1626.

Attraction type: Historic site
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This memorial to the former president of the General Legislative Council stands at the center of the Circus.

Attraction type: Monument
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Montravers Estate was one Nevis plantation that produced sugar for export for 300 years; the buildings of the estate are on the mountainside, directly above Pinney's Beach. Montravers is the one of...

Attraction type: Historic home
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Fort Charles had an important role in the history of Nevis. The fort was constructed by the British on a small promontory south of Charlestown, the capital. The purpose was to protect Charlestown...

Attraction type: Historic site
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  Montpelier House, Nevis, was where Horatio Nelson and Frances Nisbet celebrated their marriage, on March 11th 1787. Unfortunately the great plantation house itself no longer stands, and currently...

Attraction type: Historic home
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New River Estate is on the Atlantic or eastern side of Nevis (the Caribbean is the western side of the island.) This estate was still processing sugar commercially until 1958, when it finally closed...

Attraction type: Historic site
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The ruins of Cottle Church are off the main road at Round Hill Estate, in the woods, in the northern part of the island of Nevis, not far from the airport. This very small church or chapel, also known

Attraction type: Historic site
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Memorial Square is the larger, and grander, of the two squares that form the center of Charlestown, the capital of Nevis, Eastern Caribbean. The Square very much still has the elegant feeling it must...

Attraction type: Monument
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  During the 17th century, a group of Sephardic Jews who had previously been living for a while in Brazil, came north to Nevis, where they taught the British settlers the difficult, but...

Attraction type: Cemetery
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