Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park World Heritage Site

Official name

Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park | UNESCO

Country

Saint Kitts and Nevis | Map

Continent

North America

Location

Parish of St Thomas, St Christopher (St Kitts)
17.3469° Lat, -62.8372° Lon | Map

Code

910

Time Zone

America/St_Kitts (AST, -0400)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1999. 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.