Touring Attractions by Parish St. Lucy • Little Bay • River Bay • Animal Flower Cave • Half Moon Fort • Segway Barbados • Cove Bay
St. Peter • Speightstown • Arlington House Interactive Museum • Barbados Wildlife Reserve • Grenade Hall Signal Station, Forest & Nature Trail • Farley Hill Park • Cherry Tree Hill • St. Nicholas Abbey
St. Andrew • Chalky Mount Potteries • Barclays Recreational Park • Springvale Museum and Eco Heritage Tour
St. James • Barbados National Trust Sugar Museum • St. James Parish Church • Folkstone Underwater Park & Museum • Holetown Andrew Hulsmeier
St. Joseph • Cattlewash • Bathsheba • Andromeda Gardens • Hunte’s Gardens • Flower Forest Gun Hill Signal Station
St. Thomas
Freedom Footprints: The Barbados Story
• Earthworks Pottery • Ins and Outs Gift Emporium • Canefield Plantation • Welchman Hall Gully • Harrison’s Cave • Aerial Trek Zipline Adventures
Certain sites around Barbados have now been identified as places of memory related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery experience, to form the nucleus for this unique cultural experience, Freedom Footprints: The Barbados Story. In 2003, the Ministry of Tourism launched a Barbados Slave Route Signage Project as its contribution to a global UNESCO/WTO Cultural Slave Route Signage Project. The concept of the Freedom Footprints tour has emerged from this project and is similar to the African Diaspora Heritage Trails that have been established in various countries. Sites that celebrate survival and freedom from enslavement are featured on the tour. Individuals who misbehaved, both free and enslaved, were kept in the holding cell in Bridgetown called “The Cage”. Runaway slaves were also imprisoned there while awaiting the arrival of their owners to claim them. The signal station at Gun Hill offers a fantastic panoramic view of the island, but it was constructed primarily for the relay of information on any impending slave revolts. Freedom (manumission) and property bequests were sometimes granted by plantation owners to their slave mistresses and children. Bourne’s Land is one of several villages across the island developed in this way, and Sweet Bottom is one of the oldest villages bequeathed to enslaved individuals. The only known and excavated communal enslaved burial ground in a plantation setting in the Western Hemisphere is Newton Burial Ground in Christ Church. These and other sites linked to stories of triumph over adversity are marked by prominent signage that outlines their significance. For more information contact the Ministry of Tourism at 430-7500.
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St. John • St. John’s Parish Church • Martin’s Bay • Bath • Codrington College
St. George • Orchid World • Gun Hill Signal Station and Lion • St. George Parish Church
St. Michael • George Washington House • St. Ann’s Fort • Barbados Museum and Historical Society • St. Patrick’s R.C. Cathedral • Museum of Parliament • Nidhe Israel Museum and Synagogue • St. Michael’s Anglican Cathedral • Kensington Oval • Cricket Legends of Barbados Museum • Banks Brewery • Mount Gay Rum Distillery • Tyrol Cot House and Heritage Village • Medford Craft Village
St. Philip • The Rum Distillery & Heritage Park at Foursquare • Sunbury Plantation House • Bottom Bay • The Crane Beach • Kendal Sporting • Harrismith • Foul Bay • Ragged Point & East Point Lighthouse
Christ Church • Mallalieu Motor Collection • The Boardwalk • Barbados Concorde Experience • Oistins • Silver Sands • Miami Beach