states: [saint kitts and nevis]
category: cultural
year: 1999
location: Parish of St Thomas, St Christopher (St Kitts)
region: Latin America and the Caribbean
latitude/longitude: 17.3469400000, -62.8372200000
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.
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