Mustique

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Mustique is an island of the Grenadines ( part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines ) and is situated in the Caribbean Sea. The island is owned by the Mustique Company, which owns two hotels on the island. There are also 89 private villas on the island. Because it has luxury and seclusion, it is visited by many celebrities, such as Bryan Adams, Mick Jagger, Tommy Hilfiger and David Bowie. The painter Stefan Szczesny comes to the island since 1995 and is working on his works. He has already published three books on Mustique.

Geography

Mustique lies about 28 km south of the main island of St. Vincent, 14 km south of Bequia and about 240 km west of Barbados. They reached the south a height of 183 meters. It is one of the Grenadines, which in turn belong to the Leeward Islands and thus to the Lesser Antilles. It lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, has several coral reefs and is about 5.7 km ².

The approximately 500 residents live in the villages of Lovell, Britannia Bay and Dover.

History

During the 18th century, Mustique, like many other British territories, defended against the French. Three forts were built at strategic points: Liverpool, Percival, and Shandy. Nelson's long blockade of Europe and the ultimate victory over the French Admiral Villeneuve in 1804 cut France on the sugar of the West Indies. Shortly afterwards discovered Farmer that sugar could also be obtained from sugar beet in Europe, thus the Grenadines were abandoned. On Mustique, the jungle grew over the seven sugar plantations: Endeavour, Rutland, Old Plantation, East Lot, Adelphi, Campbell Valley and Aberdeen. Only the sugar mill at Endeavour is retarded.

Mustique in 1865 by the family of St. Vincent Hazell was merged into a property. 1958 bought Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner the island for £ 45,000. There were no investors, and the island was inhabited by 100 people in a ramshackle village, Cheltenham, near Cotton House. They were working on some fields and tried to grow cotton, peas and corn for the Hazell family.

One of the first villas, Les Jolies Eaux, was built by Princess Margaret at the southern tip of the island. Tennant gave Margaret, with whom he was a close friend, about 4 acres of land for this purpose as a wedding gift in 1960; certainly with the ulterior motive of the hitherto rather unattractive Mustique (French mosquito ) to make an island of the jet set.

Pictures of Mustique

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Grocery

Beaches on the East Coast

Villa

Sugar mill

Sugar mill from a distance