Attractions

Soak up history and sweeping views from this extensively restored fort, a mighty citadel complete with cannons, triple bastions and cobblestone parade grounds. The current stone structure was built by the British in…

This narrow strip of oyster-gray sand is an extraordinary place to snorkel in pristine waters among the ruins of 18th-century warehouses, now caked in coral and teeming with multicolored fish. The ruins comprise mos…

Sweeping views of St Kitts to the south and the Quill and White Cliffs to the northeast extend from this historic fort at the island's southern tip, 3.3km southeast of Oranjestad's Fort Oranje. Between January and A…

Set inside an 18th-century house built by wealthy merchant Simon Doncker, this eclectic collection showcases pre-Columbian artifacts and exhibits on slavery, Statia's Jewish community, nautical history, and colonial…

Started in 1988 on a former sugar plantation, these semiwild botanical gardens grow across the southeastern slopes of the island's dormant volcano, the Quill, 5km east of Oranjestad. It's a fragrant introduction to …

These ruins are the roofless and slowly decaying yellow-brick walls of the Honen Dalim (‘She Who is Kind to the Poor’), an abandoned synagogue dating from 1739, which makes it the second-oldest synagogue in the west…

Located 3.7km northeast of Oranjestad's Fort Oranje, Zeelandia Bay takes its name from Statia’s first Dutch settlers, who hailed from Zeeland province in the Netherlands. Its dark-sand beach is not ideal for swimmin…

This handsome 18th-century stone-and-wood building was thoroughly renovated in 1992 with funding from the EU. It's now the government headquarters, with the offices of the lieutenant governor and commissioners on th…

About 50m south of the Honen Dalim synagogue ruins is a Jewish cemetery, with gravestones dating from 1742 to 1843. It was here that some Jews tried to avoid British plundering. Troops noticed an extremely large num…

The thick 60cm stone walls of the old Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1755, remain perfectly intact, but the roof collapsed during a 1792 hurricane and the building has been open to the heavens ever since. The groun…