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Columbus Park
An open-air roadside museum atop the bluff on the west side of the bay, this park features anchors, cannons, nautical bells, sugar-boiling coppers and an old waterwheel, and a diminutive locomotive once used to haul sugar at Innswood Estate. Nearby are remains of Quadrant Wharf, bu
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Mavis Bank Coffee Factory
Established in 1923 and located 1km southwest of Mavis Bank is the largest coffee factory in Jamaica, producing Blue Mountain coffee sold under the ‘Jablum’ label. Ask the chief ‘cupper’ to demonstrate ‘cupping’ (tasting), the technique to identify quality coffee. You can tour the
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Frenchman’s Cove
This little cove just east of Drapers boasts a small but perfect white-sand beach, where the water is fed by a freshwater river that spits directly into the ocean. The area is still technically owned by the Frenchman’s Cove Resort . There’s a snack bar serving jerk chicken and fish
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Alpha Boys School
Few have had the impact on modern Jamaican music like Alpha Boys School and their students. A nonprofit residential school for at-risk boys, Alpha is where many of Jamaicas musical pioneers in jazz, ska and reggae (from the Skatalites to Yellowman) got their start. The band is stil
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Rodney Memorial
Dominating Parade square on the north side is the elaborate Rodney Memorial, built in honor of Admiral George Rodney, who crowned his four-year service as commander-in-chief of the West Indian Naval Station in 1782 when he saved Jamaica from a combined French and Spanish invasion f
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Nine Mile Museum
In theory, Nine Mile Museum could be such a great attraction. The plain two-room house where Marley spent his early years is touching, as is his marble mausoleum, with its candles, Bible and stained-glass windows. Unfortunately, the sites relentless plastic commercialisation, and t
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African
Presided over by the Institute of Jamaica, the Heritage Centre houses an extensive library dedicated to the history of the Middle Passage and a sociocultural exploration of the African diaspora. It is also home to the Memory Bank, an engrossing audiovisual history archive created t
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National Heroes Park
The 30-hectare, oval-shaped National Heroes Park hosts National Heroes Circle , dedicated to Jamaica’s seven national heroes. Sir Alexander Bustamante, Norman Manley and Marcus Garvey are all buried here, along with symbolic memorials to Nanny, Sam Sharpe, and Paul Bogle and George
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Civic Centre
At the southwest corner of Sam Sharpe Sq you’ll find the copper-domed Civic Centre, an elegant colonial-style cut-stone building on the site of a ruined colonial courthouse. It contains the small, not terribly well assembled (if informative) Museum of St James , replete with relics
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William Knibb Memorial Church
On July 31, 1838, slaves gathered outside William Knibb Memorial Church for an all-night vigil, awaiting midnight and then the dawn of full freedom (to quote Knibbs: ‘The monster is dead’), when slave-shackles, a whip and an iron collar were symbolically buried in a coffin. In the
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Long Bay
This blindingly white, world-famous, 11km-long beach is Negril’s claim to fame, and no matter how cynical you are, you gotta admit: this is one beautiful beach. It’s a hell of a show: naked Europeans, tattooed Americans, gigolos and hustlers offering everything from sex to aloe mas
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Courthouse & Around
Port Morant’s courthouse was rebuilt in limestone and red brick after being destroyed in the 1865 rebellion and burned down again in early 2007, its ruins standing defiant behind an empty plinth that once bore an Edna Manley statue of Paul Bogle, his hands clasped over the hilt of
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Bluefields House
Philip Gosse was one of the great polymaths of his time: the man who both popularized the aquarium and modified its design, and illustrator of gorgeously detailed renditions of Jamaican birdlife. His old home, naught but a ruin located inland from the Bluefields police station, is
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Prospect Plantation
If you’ve been wondering why St Ann is called ‘the garden parish,’ you’ll find your answer at this beautiful old hilltop great house and 405-hectare property, less working plantation and more tourist attraction, 5km east of town. On a pleasant, educational tour you’ll travel by tra
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Freeport Peninsula
The artificially made Freeport Peninsula, constructed by making a causeway between several small lagoon islands (the Bogue Islands) in the 1960s, is located southwest of downtown Montego Bay and serves, among other functions, as the docking point for cruise ships, a nexus for the y
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Sam Sharpe Square
This bustling cobbled square is named for Samuel Sharpe (1801–32), national hero and leader of the 1831 Christmas Rebellion. At the square’s northwest corner is the National Heroes Monument , a bronze statue of Paul Bogle and Sam Sharpe, Bible in hand, speaking to three admirers. N
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People’s Museum of Crafts & Technology
On the west side of Parade Square is the porticoed Georgian redbrick facade of the ruins of the Old King’s House , a once-grandiose building erected in 1762 as the official residence of Jamaica’s governors. The building was destroyed by fire in 1925, leaving only the restored facad
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Somerset Falls
This dark waterfall is hidden in a deep gorge about 3km east of Hope Bay. The Daniels River cascades down through a lush garden of ferns, heliconias, lilies and crotons into glistening teardrop black pools. Visitors have to negotiate some steep, twisty steps to get here.The site ha
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Wassi Art
Family-owned Wassi Art employs over 50 artists to make its colorful, richly decorated terra- cotta pottery. It is named for the ‘wassi’ wasp, or potter wasp, which makes a mud pot for each of its eggs and stuffs it with a caterpillar for food for her hatchlings. Free tours are offe
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Harmony Hall
A lovely pink gingerbread house on the A3 6km east of town, Harmony Hall dates to 1886 when it was a Methodist manse that adjoined a pimento estate. The restored structure is made of cut stone, with a wooden upper story trimmed with fretwork and a shingled roof with a spire. Reborn
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