Cities of Bermuda: Hamilton
Capital, the largest city, commercial center and picturesque "heart" Bermud, Hamilton is also the place of concentration of most governmental and commercial institutions of the country. Named by Henry Hamilton – Governor Bermud in the period from 1788 to 1794, the city began its development just at the time of his rule – in 1790, when it took place to find a place for a new transshipment port for vessels running between the coast of New World and Europe. By 1815, the city grew up into a large shopping unit, and so rapidly, it was decided to postpone here from the old capital Cent-George all government agencies.
Now it is small on the European standards of the town (the population of only 15 thousand people), which locals are just called "town", Some turmozy and constantly clogged with tourists. The city center is located along the covering harbor of the street front street, surrounded by old Victorian buildings in the frame of limestone fences, apricot gardens and blue sky. Many buildings have hanging verandas, made in a wide variety of architectural traditions, but with indispensable graceful handicapped grates. Most interesting places of the city can be waged literally for 4 hours, but walking here is not the best way to move, because the roads and streets of old quarters are quite narrow and rarely equipped with sidewalks.
The main attractions of Hamilton include Neo-Netical Bermuda Cathedral of Bridge-Holi Trinity (Holy Trinity, 1884-1886., Completed in 1905), cabinet buildings (1833 g), houses of assembly and the Senate between Parliament Street and Court Street, as well as Pentagonal Fort Hamilton (1870-1876.) – an impressive construction located on the top of the hills, with the majestic panorama of Hamilton harbor and beautiful gardens. Fort shafts are equipped with 10-inch fasteners capable of installing 400-pound projectiles of any vessel included in the harbor. This destructive weapon, fortunately, has never been used for appointment. Kenotafa is also interesting – a monument to the Bermudz who died in world wars (1920 g, an accurate copy of the Memorial in London Whitehall), Waterville (1842 g) – headquarters of the Bermuda National Trust Fund, on the territory of which Garden of Bermuda Rose-Sisayeti is located, Memorial Garden Mary-Jean Mitchell and Beautiful Belvedere, as well as Fort Scar (XIX C), from the walls of which opens a majestic view of the Great Sound Bay.
Bermuda Historical Public Museum (1814 g) in Pa La Ville Contains a rich exposition of the era of great geographical discoveries, as well as items raised from the bottom of the sea from the shipwreck of the ship "Si-Vacher" Admiral George Somers. In the same building, a former once mansider of William Pepota – the first head of the Bermud Post Office, the Public Library of Bermud is located. The surrounding complex Para La Ville, lying in the very center of Hamilton, was once a garden mansion mansion, and its curly tracks, shady allys and multicolored flower beds offer rest from the noise and fuss of the capital.
One of the cultural centers of the city is the Bermuda National Gallery (1992 WWW.BNG.BM), in the exposition of which contains the works of European masters of the XVII-XIX centuries, as well as the local masters – Thomas Gainesborough, Joshua Reynolds and Winslow Homer. A good artistic collection is also contained in the Gallery Desmond Fontine on the front Street. Behind the building of the municipality is located Victoria Park, broken at the end of the XIX century in honor of Queen Victoria. Now the park is a favorite place to carry out various musical representations passing here, usually, on Saturday and Sunday. Nearby is Marina Royal Yacht Club Bermud.
Institute of Underwater Research (WWW.BUEI.ORG) on East Broadway is widely known as one of the best scientific and cultural centers of the region. Museum and Zoo are greatly popular (WWWW.BAMZ.ORG) in Flats-Village, and also included in this complex aquarium Bermud, which is an exact copy of the local reef (here is about 200 species of fish and about 50 varieties of other marine animals). Nearby is the entrance to the famous caves of Crystal Cave (crystal and fantasy), under the roofs of which you can take a walk along a pontoon bridge, which has been passing through the underground lake Kaho, crystal-clear water of which allows you to freely consider the bottom, the distance to which at least 16 M. No less famous Cher Cave Caves, unfortunately, closed to the public. However, this ancient karst education, also known as Painter-Weil-Keive, was widely used in antiquity for the departure of cults, and in the very center it lies the largest underground lake Bermud.
Ferries connect Hamilton with Islands Pajet, Warwick, the area of Somerset and Royal-Naval-Docyard (Locals are called this area just "Shipy"). The best beachfronts of the capital are concentrated around the South Sho-Park district, near Bay Beach and Elbo Beach, as well as around the Bay of John-Smith Bay in the County Padet. Natural park South Shoe Park guards a number of Bermud’s best shores, covering a whole series of bays and bays separated by the outcrops of stone rocks. The eastern edge of the park forms the Warwick-Long Bay bay – a beautiful sector formed by an extended beach from pink and white coral sands. Since this place is practically not protected by capes, Warwick-Long-Bay is famous for its waves suitable for surfing quite high levels.
Ferries also connect the shores Hamilton Harbor, run to Great Sound, Somerset Bridge and other regions of May Island, so many excursions in the most picturesque places are held directly from the side of the ferry. Numerous Arches from Wild Stone are scattered around the island – Munong. According to the local tradition brought in the XVIII century by captains of sailing ships, the newlyweds must pass under the arch and their desires will definitely come true.
Around the capital also a lot of interesting places. The Blue Hole Park Reserve Park is widely known with a large bird community and leaving the blue grotto, abundant by reef fish, the natural Aquarium Daequis-How in the Smith County (in fact it is just a karst cave with a collapsed archway, which has access to the ocean), and Also numbering more than a thousand species of plants Bermud Botanical Gardens (1898 g) in the district of Padet Square 36 acres. Despite the rather peculiar natural conditions, the islanders are breeding a tremendous amount of greenery – it is almost everywhere you can find a huge number of small, but very picturesque parks – Pembroke march, SPNISH Point, Admiralty House (Pembroke District), Robinson Bay, Devonshire-Marsh, Penchirst, Devonshire Bay and Palmetto (Devonshire-Paris), Paj Marsh and White Island (County Pajet), Shelly Bay, Ebbots Cliff, Koni Island, Wilkinson-Memorial Park and Croolet-Waterfront (Hamilton Paris ), Spittal-hound, Watch-Hill and Winter Hayven (Smith-Paris), as well as Ferry Point, Rocky Hill, Mallet Bay Park, Great Hid, Kindley Field and Extensive Park Zone in the Northern County Saint George. Also good Warwick Ridge, Warwick-hound, South Show Park and Ashd Park and Beach in Warwick-Paris, Cherch Bay, Seymour-Paint and West Vale-Bay Park in Southampton, Foot Bay , Danielz-Hid, Liegeset-Long Bay and Virginia Park in Sandis. Practicious greens everywhere – every home or mansion is surrounded by a small, but park, and numerous lawns and flowerbeds and create a special mood that is inherent in the capital of Bermud, and the whole country.
