Saint Kitts is the larger of the two islands that make up the small Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The largest historical site is the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. A British fortification this was once refered to as the Gibraltar of the Caribbean. In the past several decades the fort has been under significant restoration, and is now a popular tourist destination on the island.
See Golf Course at the St. Kitts Marriott .
St. Kitts' British settlers designed and built the second largest fort in the Caribbean to protect an island just 68 square miles in size -- it was that important to them -- and with good reason.
Savoring High Tea at the Golden Lemon on St. Kitts, a proper treat
Touring Nevis' plantation inns
Taking in the view from Brimstone Hill Fortress
St. Kitts is a whale-shaped island has mountains running down its back. The tail is blessed with opalescent beaches that look pink one day and gold the next.
St. Kitts is a volcanic island, a fact to which it owes its dramatic central mountains, its rather unpredictable geologic history, and its lush tropical vegetation. In fact, St. Kitts' pre-Columbian Carib inhabitants knew their island as Liamuiga, or "fertile land," a reference to the island's rich and productive volcanic soil.