The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Saint Kitts and Nevis accepted the convention on July 10, 1986, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2023, Saint Kitts and Nevis has only one World Heritage Site, Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, which was inscribed in 1999. [2]
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural. [3]
Site | Image | Location | Year listed | UNESCO data | Description |
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Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park | Saint Thomas Middle Island | 1999 | 910; iii, iv (cultural) | 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. [4] |
Site | Image | Location | Criteria | Area ha ( acre) |
Year of submission | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Historic zone of Basseterre | Saint George Basseterre Parish | Cultural | 1998 | [5] | ||
City of Charlestown | Saint Paul Charlestown Parish | Cultural | 1998 | [6] |
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Saint Kitts and Nevis accepted the convention on July 10, 1986, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2023, Saint Kitts and Nevis has only one World Heritage Site, Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, which was inscribed in 1999. [2]
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural. [3]
Site | Image | Location | Year listed | UNESCO data | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park | Saint Thomas Middle Island | 1999 | 910; iii, iv (cultural) | 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. [4] |
Site | Image | Location | Criteria | Area ha ( acre) |
Year of submission | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Historic zone of Basseterre | Saint George Basseterre Parish | Cultural | 1998 | [5] | ||
City of Charlestown | Saint Paul Charlestown Parish | Cultural | 1998 | [6] |