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Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
| Site number: | 910 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 17-18th-century | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1999 | |
| Location: | South America, Caribbean, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Parish of St Thomas, St Christopher (St Kitts) | |
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| Description: | “Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is an outstanding, well-preserved example of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture in a Caribbean context. Designed by the British and built by African slave labour, the fortress is testimony to European colonial expansion, the African slave trade and the emergence of new societies in the Caribbean.” --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of historical, cultural and architectural significance: a monument to the ingenuity of the British military engineers who designed it and to the skill, strength and endurance of the African slaves who built and maintained it. One of the best preserved historical fortifications in the Americas, it is located on the island of St. Kitts in the Federation of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/910 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |