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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison' has mentioned 'Caribbean' in the following places:
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The Grantley Adams International Airport for Barbados, is located 16 kilometres (10xc2xa0mi) southeast of Bridgetown city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. | WIKI |
Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination, and the city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention centre, and cruise ship port of call in the Caribbean region. | WIKI |
It was thought that this bridge was created by a people indigenous to the Caribbean known as the Tainos. | WIKI |
The Harbour port acts as one of the major shipping and transhipment hubs from international locations for the entire Eastern Caribbean. | WIKI |
Indeed, at one point in the city's early history, Bridgetown was the most important city of all British possessions in the New World due to the city's easterly location in the Caribbean region. | WIKI |
Bridgetown has branches of some of the largest banks in the world and English-speaking Caribbean and is internationally recognised as an emerging financial domicile. | WIKI |
Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE), The city of Bridgetown has a stock exchange with securities of Barbadian and regional Caribbean companies. | WIKI |
As one of the earliest established towns with a fortified port in the Caribbean network of military and maritime-mercantile outposts of the British Atlantic, Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison was the focus of trade-based English expansion in the Americas. | UNESCO |
Historic Bridgetownxe2x80x99s irregular settlement patterns and 17th Century street layout of an English medieval type, in particular the organic serpentine streets, supported the development and transformation of creolized forms of architecture, including Caribbean Georgian. | UNESCO |
Used as a base for amphibious command and control, the garrison housed the Eastern Caribbean headquarters of the British Army and Navy. | UNESCO |
While the Garrison can be said to have absorbed military ideas from Europe and transmitted them to other areas of the Caribbean, the social stratification of Bridgetown illustrates the interchange of several occupational, religious, ethnic, free and enslaved groups; a meeting of cultures, which created a hybridized Creole culture in the Anglophone Caribbean. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iii): Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison is an exceptional testimony of British colonial trade and defence in the Caribbean and the Americas. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iv): St Annxe2x80x99s Garrison is the earliest type of British navy and army base in the Caribbean and in its architectural layout and urban composition influenced later British presence in the region. | UNESCO |