UNESCO just added Port Royal to its World Heritage Site list for its deep cultural and historical importance to Jamaica and the Caribbean. Once a pirate stronghold, the city was destroyed in a 1692 ...
UNESCO has designated Jamaica's Port Royal as a World Heritage site. Port Royal is known for its history as a pirate haven and its role in the transatlantic slave trade. A 1692 earthquake submerged a ...
The story of Port Royal in Naples begins with John Glenn Sample, who hailed from Chicago and had a background in radio advertising. Sample purchased two square miles of marshland in the 1940s, for ...