Vigie
Vigie (from French Vigie "lookout", "watch") is a rocky headland and the residential area of the same name in the north of the island's capital Castries on Saint Lucia , the island state of the West Indies .
geography
Vigie is a peninsula that protrudes from the island body of St. Lucia to the west and encloses the bay of Castries with the opposite headland La Toc in the south. The George FL Charles Airport is partially built on the peninsula. The runway runs roughly in a west-east direction and seals off Vigie and the neighboring Vigie Beach (in the north) from the old town. There the districts of Point Seraphine and Sansouci join.
On Vigie there are still old military fortifications (Meadows Battery 1898) and on the Beacon one of the two lighthouses of St. Lucia, Vigie Lighthouse . There is also the Chancery , the residence of the Prime Minister of St. Lucia , St Mary's College and several embassy buildings.
history
In the French colonial era , Vigie was originally the main French base. They built a village at the foot of the hill in 1745 and later the three forts: Choc Fort facing Choc Bay , Fort St. Victor at the entrance to Grand Carénage Bay (Castries Harbor) and Fort Montagu facing Petit Carénage Bay . Soon after, however, they fortified the Morne Fortune and moved their administration further south in the shelter of the Bay of Vigie.
Individual evidence
- ^ Saint Lucia The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Jolien Harmsen, Guy Ellis, Robert Devaux: A History of St Lucia. Lighthouse Road, Vieux Fort 2014: 162. ISBN 9789769534001
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Coordinates: 14 ° 1 ′ N , 61 ° 0 ′ W