UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Kingstown, St. Vincent
Saint Vincent has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Pitons Management Area in St Lucia (130 km N). Notable: Kingstown Botanical Garden (oldest in Western Hemisphere, 1765), La Soufrière active volcano.
Saint Vincent has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Pitons Management Area in St Lucia (130 km N). Notable: Kingstown Botanical Garden (oldest in Western Hemisphere, 1765), La Soufrière active volcano.
St Lucia has 1 UNESCO site: Pitons Management Area (2004), 65 km south of Castries — twin volcanic peaks Gros Piton (770 m) and Petit Piton (743 m) + Sulphur Springs.
St Kitts has 1 UNESCO site: Brimstone Hill Fortress NP (1999), 13 km northwest of Basseterre — the “Gibraltar of the West Indies”, the largest British colonial fortress in the Eastern Caribbean.
Dominica has 1 UNESCO site: Morne Trois Pitons National Park (1997), 8 km east of Roseau — Boiling Lake (2nd largest thermally active lake), Trafalgar Falls, Sisserou parrot habitat.
Grenada has no UNESCO sites. Saint George’s features Fort George (1705), the Carenage harbour, and the Molinière Underwater Sculpture Park. Nearest UNESCO site: Brimstone Hill in St Kitts (300 km NW).
Timor-Leste has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Komodo NP in Indonesia (1,000 km west, 1991) — home to the world’s largest lizard. Timor-Leste’s own heritage includes the uma lulik sacred house tradition.
Bhutan has no inscribed UNESCO sites. Tashichho Dzong (in Thimphu) and Taktsang Monastery (65 km west) are the most celebrated examples of the distinctive Bhutanese dzong architectural tradition, on the Tentative List.
Maldives has no UNESCO sites. The Friday Mosque of Malé (1656) is the oldest building in the Maldives. Nearest UNESCO sites are in Sri Lanka (700 km NE); the atolls are critically threatened by sea-level rise.
Guinea-Bissau has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Stone Circles of Senegambia in Gambia (260 km NE, 2006). Nearby: Bijagós Archipelago — saltwater hippos, sea turtles, Bijagó culture — on Tentative List.
Liberia has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire (600 km east). Within Liberia: Sapo National Park (200 km southeast, pygmy hippo habitat, the largest forest reserve in West Africa after Taï).