Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Nevis' small capital, captivating CHARLESTOWN , boasts an impeccable assemblage of gingerbread-trimmed skirt-and-blouse houses , in keeping with residents' resolutely old-fashioned attitudes. These traditional attitudes can also be seen in the 1825 courthouse on a day that someone's being tried for swearing in public; you'll see the cusser in question sitting in a draconian crib-like prisoner's box. The upstairs library , with its heavy-set ceiling braced by mahogany gunwales, is equally devoid of modernity. Indeed, it seems the only thing that's changed about Charlestown … more »