St. Kitts? Brimstone Hill among ?10 great places to explore the world?s best-kept secrets?

2012-01-24 14:26:56 by

Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park has been listed in one of America?s top daily newspaper as ?among the 10 great places to explore the world?s best-kept secrets.? Joe Yogerst, told Larry Bleiberg of USA Today that Brimstone Hill, once called the Gibraltar of the West Indies, is ?the most impressive of all the British forts I've seen in the Caribbean.?
This former British colonial fort dominates a flat-topped seaside mountain. Abandoned 100 years ago, it has been restored and offers views of a volcano on the nearby Dutch island of Sint Eustatius.
Yogerst is one of the primary authors of Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World?s-Best Hidden Travel Gems printed in National Geographic.
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 labor, the fortress is testimony to European colonial expansion, the African slave trade and the emergence of new societies in the Caribbean.
The Brimstone Hill Fortress is of historical, cultural and architectural significance, a monument to the ingenuity of the British military engineers who designed it and supervised its construction and to the skill, strength and endurance of the African slaves who built and maintained it. In some of its architectural features, notably the Citadel, are expressed elements of different stages of fortress design.




Source:sknvibes.com