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Barbados Holiday Villa
for Rent
Location Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic
hurricane belt.
7 Porters Court is one of just 8 secluded, privately owned
villas set within their own tranquil and secure landscaped
tropical gardens. The villas are centred around an
attractive communal swimming pool complete with a sun
deck, loungers and sunshades. Located on the beautiful
"platinum" west coast of Barbados in the parish of St.
James, Seven Porters Court is less than 200 metres from the
superb white sandy beaches washed by the crystal blue
waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Click on About Barbados
or
Barbados Photo Gallery
to find out about the island.
Food & restaurants, beaches boat trips & water sports,
golf, tropical gardens, wildlife reserve, rum
distilleries, colonial plantation houses, horse-riding and
racecourse and cricket. Museums in Speightstown and
Bridgetown. Festivals, historic sites and map of Barbados.
Shops
You will find bars, restaurants, banks, shops, a
supermarket, post office, medical centre, internet cafe
and an air-conditioned shopping mall, just a short bus or
car journey, or half hour walk away. Restaurants have tables
overlooking the sea.
Barbados is an island nation of the Lesser
Antilles, 21 miles in length and 14 miles in width. It is
about 104 miles east of the islands of Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, and 250 miles north-east of Venezuela.
Once a Portuguese territorial possession, in 1625 it
became English, and later a British colony. The island has
an estimated population of 275,338 people, with around
80,000 living in or around Bridgetown, the largest city
and the country's capital. In 1966, Barbados became an
independent nation and Commonwealth realm, retaining Queen
Elizabeth II as Head of State. Barbados is one of the
Caribbean's leading tourist destinations and is the most
developed island in the region. Barbados is the third most
developed country in the western hemisphere (the first and
second being Canada and the U.S.)
History
Barbados is the eastern-most Caribbean island. It is
located at 13.4N, 54.4W. The island, which is less than
one million years old, was created by the collision of the
Atlantic and Caribbean plates, along with a volcanic
eruption. Later coral formed, accumulating to
approximately 300 feet. It is geologically unique, being
actually two land masses that merged together over the
years.
Early History The history of the early settlement
of Barbados is being rewritten as a result of recent
archaeological discoveries unearthed at the site of Port
St. Charles. Artifacts and evidence point to settlement
some time around 1623 B.C.
The first indigenous people were Amerindians who arrived
here from Venezuela. Paddling long dugout canoes they
crossed oceans and currents that challenge modern sailing
vessels. On the north end of Venezuela a narrow sea
channel called the Dragon's mouth acts as a funnel to the
Caribbean sea and the nearest Island of Trinidad. It is a
formidable passage of swift flowing water and cross
currents. It is dangerous water for an open dugout canoe.
But they came, families and villages, adventurers,
descendants of the the first people who travelled across
the Alaska land bridge, down through Canada and the
Americas to the South.
They made their new home in Barbados along the coast,
leaving behind hardly a trace, only a hint of evidence for
the archeologist to date and dream about. Fragments of
tools made of shell, utensils, refuse and burial places
convey but a mystery of their time.
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0208 207 0474 (0044-208-2070474 from
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