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Shirley Heights, Antigua and Barbuda
Andrew Weber
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Displayed: times.This rambling array of gun emplacements and military buildings is best known today for the absolutely breathtaking prospect that it offers. From the Heights one can look far out over English Harbour, and on Sunday afternoons the view is accompanied by barbecue, rum punch, and the plangent strains of steel band and reggae music. The site is named for General Shirley, Governor of the Leeward Islands when the area was fortified in the late eighteenth century. Close by is the cemetery, in which stands an obelisk erected in honour of the soldiers of the 54th regiment.
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The Sunday evenings are filled with the sound of steel bands playing and the aroma of the beautiful carribean food sizzling on the barbecue, the dancing, the sunset, the atmosphere convey the true beauty of the carribean culture, you'll never want to leave.
victoria turner, 2006-06-15 22:48:20