Saint Kitts also known as Saint Christopher or San Cristobal is one of the islands that form part of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis an archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea in the Lesser Antilles. Being its capital Basseterre, a French word that means "Low Earth", with a population of more than 20 thousand inhabitants, this is one of the main commercial sites of this zone.
Basseterre like many of the islands located in the Lesser Antilles has a great influence of French culture, it is well known by all that France had a great domain in these islands for many years, so you can see on this island, in St Kitts a great splendor and colonial architecture that evokes the French splendor with its buildings and its ships, coming to Basseterre is like traveling in time.
The places you should not miss in Basseterre are:
- Clay Villa Plantation House & Gardens
- Palms Court Gardens & Restaurant
- Romney Manor
- Immaculate Conception Co-Cathedral Catholic Church
- Cockleshell Beach
- Prodiver Snorkeling
- National Museum
- Independence Square
- The Circus
