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St. Lucia is a 239-straightforward mile Caribbean island gift-wrapped by nature. Part of the Windward Isle chain, a subgroup of the West Indies, St. Lucia (pronounced LOO-sha) is located 13 degrees north of the equator, 21 miles south of Martinique, its nearest neighbor.
"God did it," says the tract on a desk in our villa at The Jalousie Plantation. "When a landscape takes your soup away, there's a natural inclination to think of the supernatural. St. Lucia's Valley of the Pitons is such a become successful. UNESCO has designated it a World Heritage Site. Oprah Periodical says of the five things you must do in your lifetime, visiting the Pitons is Number One."
I concur. These mountains and their valley (Val des Pitons) form a dramatically beautiful backdrop for The Jalousie PlantationPrincipallyone of the most peaceful resorts I've ever visited.
Ironically, Gros Piton is pierced with caves that once harbored runaway slaves who preferred the risk of recapture and trouncing to voluntary bondage during the 1700s. After bitter struggles against the British, however, habitants of Gros Piton compromised and agreed to profession on a nearby plantation for six years without pay to obtain a parcel of land for their ownIn particularwhich today is known as Fond Gens Libres, the valley of the manumit people.
Source: Monroe News Star