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An interesting story on Port Royal but it seems like they have been talking about doing something there since I was born. When are they going to finally do something to preserve the place. I know we can't depend on tourism for everything but could see boats stopping there with divers who want to explore the lost city underground.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Jamaica's 'wickedest city' Port Royal banks on heritage
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<span style="font-style: italic"> By Nick Davis BBC News, Kingston </span>
Source: BBC news
Port Royal in Jamaica was once known as the "wickedest city on earth", but it is hard to imagine that now.
Today it is a small sleepy fishing village located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour that wants to use its rich heritage to bring in tourists and improve its fortunes.
In the 17th Century, Port Royal was home to the real pirates of the Caribbean - it was a buccaneers' paradise with one in every four building said to be a bar or a brothel.
This provided pirates will ample opportunities to indulge.
More than 100 years later, Charles Leslie wrote of Port Royal in the 1660s: "Wine and women drained [pirates of their] wealth to such a degree that... some of them became reduced to beggary. They have been known to spend 2 or 3,000 pieces of eight in one night."
"They used to buy a pipe of wine, place it in the street, and oblige everyone that passed to drink," he wrote in his 1793 A New and Exact History of Jamaica.
The town also served as the headquarters of the Royal Navy in the Caribbean; a young officer by the name of Horatio Nelson was stationed here.
The Jamaican government hopes that the UN's cultural body, Unesco, will recognise its rich history and designate it a world heritage site, putting it on a par with Egypt's pyramids, Spain's Alhambra or Cambodia's Angkor Wat.
Read the rest of the story at BBC news
<span style="font-weight: bold">Jamaica's 'wickedest city' Port Royal banks on heritage
</span>
<span style="font-style: italic"> By Nick Davis BBC News, Kingston </span>
Source: BBC news
Port Royal in Jamaica was once known as the "wickedest city on earth", but it is hard to imagine that now.
Today it is a small sleepy fishing village located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour that wants to use its rich heritage to bring in tourists and improve its fortunes.
In the 17th Century, Port Royal was home to the real pirates of the Caribbean - it was a buccaneers' paradise with one in every four building said to be a bar or a brothel.
This provided pirates will ample opportunities to indulge.
More than 100 years later, Charles Leslie wrote of Port Royal in the 1660s: "Wine and women drained [pirates of their] wealth to such a degree that... some of them became reduced to beggary. They have been known to spend 2 or 3,000 pieces of eight in one night."
"They used to buy a pipe of wine, place it in the street, and oblige everyone that passed to drink," he wrote in his 1793 A New and Exact History of Jamaica.
The town also served as the headquarters of the Royal Navy in the Caribbean; a young officer by the name of Horatio Nelson was stationed here.
The Jamaican government hopes that the UN's cultural body, Unesco, will recognise its rich history and designate it a world heritage site, putting it on a par with Egypt's pyramids, Spain's Alhambra or Cambodia's Angkor Wat.
Read the rest of the story at BBC news
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