17 Facts About Bridgetown

Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael.

Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common reference is simply "Town".

Bridgetown port, found along Carlisle Bay lies on the southwestern coast of the island.

Parts of the Greater Bridgetown area, sit close to the borders of the neighbouring parishes Christ Church and St James.

Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination, and the city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention centre, and cruise ship port of call in the Caribbean region.

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Bridgetown is the only city outside the present United States that George Washington visited.

Bridgetown was built with a street layout resembling early English medieval or market towns, with its narrow serpentine street and alley configuration.

From 1800 until 1885, Bridgetown was the main seat of Government for the former British colonies of the Windward Islands.

The Corporation of Bridgetown thus ceased to exist, and its records and paraphernalia were deposited in both the Government Department of Archives and Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

Today, Bridgetown and surrounding constituencies are administered by members of the Barbadian parliament.

Bridgetown Port is the major port of entry for cruise and cargo ships docking in Barbados.

Recently, the Bridgetown Port was dredged to allow safe access and berthing for the new league of "super cruise ships".

Bridgetown serves as a principal centre of commercial activity in Barbados, as well as a central hub for the island's public transport system.

Indeed, at one point in the city's early history, Bridgetown was the most important city of all British possessions in the New World due to the city's easterly location in the Caribbean region.

City of Bridgetown played host to the 1994 United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Islands States.

Bridgetown has branches of some of the largest banks in the world and English-speaking Caribbean and is internationally recognised as an emerging financial domicile.

Today, Bridgetown is a fully modern and thriving city, with access to many modern services including a piped water supply, electricity, natural gas supply, cutting-edge telecommunications, wireless services, internet cafes, and a good overall infrastructure.