Photo: Amateur Traveler
Exploring the Lesser Antilles with a Windstar cruise aboard the newly renovated Star Breeze: St Maarten, Barbados, St Lucia and Antigua.
Source: Cruise – Small Ships – The Caribbean with Windstar Star Breeze – Amateur Traveler
Historians believe the wreck found in Antigua to be the 1762 Beaumont, a French merchant ship.
Source: Excitement over wooden shipwreck found in Antigua’s seabed
Photo: Gemma Handy
July 16th will mark five years since the Antigua Dockyard was bestowed the honour of joining a list of other international historical places as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In order to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a place or structure must have cultural, historical and/or natural significance, and in 2016, Antigua and Barbuda joined eight other Caribbean islands that have historic sites designated as such by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.
Source: Celebration to commemorate 5-year anniversary of Dockyard as UNESCO World Heritage site
It’s a place of many names: English Harbour in Antigua, the Sailing Capital of the Caribbean; the stomping grounds of Horatio Nelson; a UNESCO site.
Source: Caribbean Moment: The Iconic English Harbour in Antigua
A report from The Daily Observer. Antigua and Barbuda’s Nelson’s Dockyard has been voted “Best Attraction in the Caribbean”. “Nelson’s Dockyard, the only continuously working Georgian naval dockyard in the world, topped the category in the annual 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards, as voted by USA Today readers,” a release from the country’s Tourism Authority said.
Nelson’s Dockyard in Antigua and Barbuda, has been voted Best Attraction in the Caribbean. Nelson’s Dockyard, the only continuously working Georgian naval dockyard in the world, topped the category in the annual 10Best Readers’ Choice Award, as voted by USA TODAY readers.
Source: Antigua’s Nelson’s Dockyard voted Best Attraction in Caribbean
While Antigua and Barbuda has long been home to one of the Caribbean’s most magnificent historical sites, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Nelson’s Dockyard, it isn’t resting on its laurels.
Antigua & Barbuda – Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites
Get out and about on a family holiday in Antigua and enjoy everything from flying among the treetops to museums and cricket.
