Travel Agent, October 4th, 1999
Barbados, located deep in the Caribbean 1,600 miles southeast of Miami, is a Caribbean rarity, an island with a long and rich history that offers the kind of cultural sightseeing you'd expect to find only on the continental mainland. Colonized by the English in 1627, Barbados is home to the sugar plantation called St. Nicholas Abbey, which was built around 1650 and is one of the two oldest houses in the English-speaking Americas (the other is in Virginia). And St. John's Church is the burial site of a supposed descendant of Constantine the Great, the Holy Roman Emperor. Retaining the old Engl...
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