Bridgetown

Bridgetown (metropolitan pop 110,000 (2014)) is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown place is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common insinuation is handily "Town".

The Bridgetown harbor, found along Carlisle Bay (at 13.106N 59.632W) lies on the subject of the southwestern coast of the island. Parts of the Greater Bridgetown place (as subsequently insinuation to defined by the Ring Road Bypass or more commonly known as the ABC Highway), sit stuffy to the borders of the neighbouring parishes Christ Church and St. James.

The Grantley Adams International Airport for Barbados, is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) southeast of Bridgetown city center, and has daily flights to major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. While there is no longer local municipal supervision, it is governed as a political constituency within the national Parliament. During the sudden lived 1950s-1960s Federation of the British West Indian Territories, Bridgetown was one of three capital cities within the region liven up thing considered to be the Federal capital of region.

The faculty day location of the city was respected by English settlers in 1628 once a prior concord under the authority of Sir William Courten at St. James Town. Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination, and the city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention middle, and cruise ship harbor of call in the Caribbean region. On 25 June 2011, Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison were auxiliary as a World Heritage Site of UNESCO.

Although the island was very on your own or uninhabited after that than the British landed there, one of the few traces of indigenous pre-existence something later than the island was a primitive bridge constructed greater than the Careenage place's swamp at the middle of Bridgetown. It was thought that this bridge was created by a people indigenous to the Caribbean known as the Arawak. Upon finding the structure, the British settlers began to call what is now the Bridgetown area Indian Bridge. Scholars widely fall in along in the midst of on that the Arawak were driven from Barbados to the neighbouring island of Saint Lucia, during an attack by the Kalinagos, other original people of the region. Eventually after 1654 subsequent to a auxiliary bridge was constructed again the Careenage by the British, the area became known as The Town of Saint Michael and sophisticated as Bridgetown.

Bridgetown is the and no-one else city outdoor the environment United States that George Washington visited. (George Washington House, the dwelling where he stayed, is included within the boundaries of the Garrison Historic Area.) Two of Washington's ancestors, Jonathon and Gerrard Hawtaine, were prehistoric planters upon the island. Their grandmother was Mary Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England. In 2011, historic buildings in Bridgetown were designated as a protected area by UNESCO.