Places to Visit in Nevis


Nevis Heritage Trail
Suzanne Gordon leads us on a tour of Historic Nevis.

Visiting the historic sites of Nevis is no longer a mystery. Just hit the trail—The Nevis Heritage Trail, that is.

As you travel around the main road, and up and down side roadways, notice the color green and blue trail marker signs, punctuated by the wellknown green vervet monkey.
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The Bath Hotel, Nevis
by Suzanne Gordon

It’s hard to imagine Nevis without tourists, but years ago that was the case. Then along
came the Bath Hotel. The imposing building perched on a hillside at the south end of Charlestown was the focus of the fashionable life of the English landowners on Nevis who grew cane and manufactured sugar, molasses, and rum, primarily for export. They would gather in the dining and ball rooms for grand affairs, dressed in their imported finery. British and European guests would arrive by ship to partake of the social whirl and benefit from the restorative powers of the Bath’s mineral springs which were purported to cure gout, rheumatism and other debilitating conditions. [ read more ]



Plantation Inns of Nevis
by Suzanne Gordon

Travel back in time to when the hills were blanketed with sugar cane, when travelers on horseback stopped by for afternoon tea, when the barrels of rum and molasses were loaded on ships and carried back to England.

This was the life on the sugar estates, and today the flavour and beauty of some of these old structures comes alive in the five plantation inns on Nevis. Steeped in history and located in some of the most beautiful parts of the island, the inns experience on Nevis is incredibly
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