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Pitons (Saint Lucia), Mount Gimie, Qualibou and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Saint Lucia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
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Two mountainous volcanic plugs in Saint Lucia
Two mountainous volcanic plugs, or volcanic spires, in Saint Lucia, joined by the Piton Mitan ridge: Gros Piton, 798.25 m (2,618.9 ft) high, and Petit Piton, 743 m (2,438 ft).
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia's tallest mountain, in the Canaries District on the island's west side.
Photo: MMinkenberg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain in Saint Lucia
Also called the Soufrière Volcanic Center, a caldera 3.5 × 5 km-wide on Saint Lucia, formed 32,000 to 39,000 years ago in an eruption that also laid down the Choiseul Tuff over the island's south-east.
Photo: Trent Foley from Dallas, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Church in Castries, Saint Lucia
Properly the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, a cathedral built in 1897 in the middle of three well-known streets, Laborie, Micoud and Peynier, opposite Derek Walcott Square in Castries, Saint Lucia. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Castries, now led by Archbishop Gabriel Malzaire.
Photo: Edgar El, CC BY 3.0
Beach in Saint Lucia
A beach 2 km north of Castries District, Saint Lucia, running right alongside George F. L. Charles Airport.
Photo: ROxBo at English Wikipedia, Public domain
Botanical gardens in St. Lucia
Also called the Diamond Botanical Gardens, the oldest botanical gardens on St. Lucia, home to the Diamond Waterfall, in the town of Soufrière in the island's south-west.
Photo: XeresNelro, CC BY-SA 4.0
Official residence of the Governor-General of Saint Lucia in Castries
Standing on the crest of Morne Fortune, close to Castries, the house where Saint Lucia's governor-general officially lives.
Photo: Pi3.124, CC BY-SA 4.0
Public square and park in Castries, Saint Lucia
A public square and park in the centre of Castries, Saint Lucia.
Photo: Gene93k, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bay in Saint Lucia
A coastal bay in Saint Lucia's Soufrière District, with a small black sand beach.
Photo: XeresNelro, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bay in Gros Islet Quarter, Saint Lucia
A town and bay in Gros Islet District, one of the ten districts of Saint Lucia.
Photo: Vlad Podvorny, CC BY-SA 3.0
An island country of the eastern and southern Caribbean, one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. Martinique lies to its north, Saint Vincent to its south/southwest and Barbados to its southeast. Its land covers 617 km² (238 sq mi), and its population was officially estimated at over 184,100 as of mid 2023.
Officially Saint Lucia.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Pitons (Saint Lucia), Mount Gimie, Qualibou and Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Castries and others. Pitons (Saint Lucia) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Saint Lucia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Pitons (Saint Lucia). That is not the full count for Saint Lucia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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