Situated on the west shore of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Castries is one of the best St. Lucia attractions, incompletely on account of the journey ship port at Pointe Seraphine. As the capital city, it's the place quite a bit of St. Lucia's business happens, yet it is likewise served by the George F.L. Charles Airport, its runway parallel to Vigie Beach, and interfaces St. Lucia by means of continuous flights to Martinique and Guadeloupe. The harbor is additionally served by rapid sailboats to Guadeloupe, Martinique and Dominica, making Castries a perfect base for island jumping.
Duty Free Shopping
Set in a cooled shopping center on the seaport in downtown Castries, La Place Carenage Shopping Plaza opens six days a week and gives obligation free shopping to neighborhood design and artworks and additionally mark name gadgets and tobacco. Demonstrate your identification and aircraft ticket for rebate rates.
Sailboat Sailing
Leaving from the harbor at Castries, spending a day on a sailboat cruising the west drift gives you an opportunity to unwind between visits to the island's famous Pitons, two wilderness clad magma outcrops, found 40 minutes south of the capital at Soufriere. The excursion additionally permits time for a dunk in the cobalt waters of Castries' Marigot Bay.
Castries Market
Just strides from the journey ship terminal, the Castries Market offers a nearby shopping background where ranchers offer new deliver and a determination of Caribbean flavors six days a week. An adjoining make business sector is a decent place to get gifts.
Derek Walcott Square
Named after one of St. Lucia's two Nobel Laureates, Derek Walcott Square is encompassed by nice looking provincial structures, including the Castries Public Library. On one side sits a 400-year-old monkey case tree that offers shade from the tropical sun.
Helicopter Tours
Leaving from George F.L. Charles Airport, a helicopter visit gives stunning perspectives of the city and island. The visit reveals mystery inlets, takes off over the Pitons and skims over the surface of the Caribbean Sea before coming back to Castries.
Our Planet
Situated in La Place Carenage, Our Planet is an intelligent guest focus that, through inundation burrows, snow machines, wind machines and life-size multi dimensional images, makes an experience of finding out about natural concerns.
Fair
Held each July, Carnival on St. Lucia is an uproar of shading, outfits and calypso that incorporates a parade through the roads of Castries on Carnival Monday and an opposition to announce a Carnival Queen.
Church building of the Immaculate Conception
Worked amid the nineteenth century, the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a standout amongst the most noteworthy religious structures worked by the French in the Caribbean. Fairly calm all things considered, it is loaded with bright West Indian iconography and wall paintings inside.
Morne Fortune
Only south of the downtown area, Morne Fortune is the site of a military burial ground and little exhibition hall that recounts seething fights between the French and the British for control of the district. It additionally brags what numerous consider the best beautiful perspective in the Caribbean.
Marigot Bay
You can scarcely visit the Caribbean without some time at the shoreline. In the event that Vigie Beach is excessively near the airplane terminal for solace, 15 minutes south lies Marigot Bay, a protected inlet hung with palm trees and specked with mixed drink bars; it has been utilized as a film scenery.
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