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Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Description:
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. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.