The Garrison
More than the Savannah. Explore a historic landscape of military buildings, national memory, museums, fortifications, sport and stories stretching across centuries.
Explore the landscape
The Garrison is a place of its own.
Explore the other major part of the Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison UNESCO World Heritage Site, place by place rather than as one attraction.
Garrison Savannah
Military history, independence, horse racing, ceremony and public life meet in one landscape.
George Washington House
A restored Garrison landmark connecting Barbados with the wider Atlantic world.
Main Guard & Clock Tower
One of the Garrison's defining buildings and a focal point of the old military complex.
Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Barbados' wider history interpreted inside former British military prison buildings.
St. Ann's Fort & National Armoury
Historic fortification, the modern Defence Force and the Garrison's cannon collection.
Barbados Military Cemetery
A quiet burial ground preserving the human side of generations of military service.
Needham's Point Lighthouse
An 1855 lighthouse linking the Garrison landscape with the maritime approaches to Carlisle Bay.
Charles Fort
An earlier layer of coastal defence overlooking the approaches to Bridgetown and Carlisle Bay.
Drill Hall Beach
Where the historic Garrison landscape meets the south coast and the waters of Carlisle Bay.
Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historic Bridgetown and The Garrison.
Two distinct landscapes, connected by one larger history.