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Tourists pour into Barbados from all over the world, drawn by the delightful climate, the big blue sea and brilliant white sandy beaches. Many of them rarely stray far from their hotels and guesthouses, but those who make an effort find a proud island scattered with an impressive range of historic sites and, away from the mostly gently rolling landscape, dramatic scenery in hidden caves, cliffs and gullies.

For more than three centuries Barbados was a British colony and retains something of a British feel: the place names, the cricket, horse-racing and polo, Anglican parish churches, and even a hilly district known as Scotland. But the Britishness is often exaggerated, for this is a distinctly West Indian country , covered by a patchwork of sugarcane fields and dotted with rum shops, where calypso is the music of choice and flying fish the favoured food.

The people of Barbados, known as Bajans , take great pride in their tiny island of 430 square kilometres and 250,000 people, which has produced writers like George Lamming, calypsonians like the Mighty Gabby and cricket players including the great Sir Gary Sobers, who

have for decades had an influence way out of proportion to the size of their home country.

Tourism plays a major part in the country's economy and revenues have been put to good use. The infrastructure and public transport are first-rate and there is no sign of the poverty that continues to bedevil some Caribbean islands. Development has mostly been pretty discreet, many of the facilities are Bajan-owned, there are no private beaches and no sign of American fast-food franchises.

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  By the late seventeenth century, sugar-rich Barbados had become one of the most important of Britain's overseas possessions. - Barbados
  

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  With a gorgeous location beside the white-sand beaches of Carlisle Bay, busy Bridgetown is the capital and only city of Barbados. - Barbados
  

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  North of the city, and just above the Kensington Oval cricket ground, the Spring Garden Highway heads up along the west coast, skirting the beach almost all the way to historic Speightstown in the far northwest. - Barbados
  

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  Don't expect dramatic topographical change as you head into the interior of Barbados ; the landscape of the central parishes of St George and St Thomas is almost uniformly flat or gently rolling - perfect for the sugar crop that's been under cultivation here for almost four centuries. - Barbados
  

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  Barbados's west coast (also known as the "platinum coast") is a fringe of bays and coves along the sheltered, Caribbean side of the island. - Barbados
  

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  For many, the rugged, little-explored east coast is the most beautiful part of Barbados. - Barbados
  

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  The north of Barbados is the most rugged and least visited part of the island, but nonetheless offers an excellent variety of places to explore. - Barbados
  

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  The southwestern parish known as Christ Church , the birthplace of tourism in Barbados, is dominated by the trappings of the holiday industry. - Barbados