Castries

Castries is the capital city of . Founded by the French in 1650, Castries now has a population of just over 11,000. Castries doesn't have a lot to offer visitors, and it's usually just a place that you'll pass through on your way to the more obvious attractions of Saint Lucia.
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Saint Lucia
  • Also known as: “Port Castries”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Castries and Mindoo Phillip Park.

Church
Photo: Edgar El, CC BY 3.0.
The Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, is a cathedral built in 1897 which is located in the centre of three well known streets: Peynier Street, Micoud Street and Laborie Street, and is opposite the in Castries, .

Pitch
is a multipurpose stadium located in Marchand, Castries, . It is a training and competition venue for cricket, association football, rugby and track and field, among other sports.

Government office
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is the official residence of the governor-general of Saint Lucia. The house is located on the crest of , near Castries. The first that was built on this site was destroyed by a hurricane in 1817, before its completion.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cul De Sac and Deglos.

Hamlet
Photo: Mjr74, Public domain.
is a hamlet.

Locality
is a settlement on the island of ; it is located at the northern end of the island towards its heart, between Trois Pitons and Barre Denis. In 2001 it had a population of 112 people in 30 households. is situated 2½ miles south of Castries.

Castries

Latitude
14.0096° or 14° 0′ 35″ north
Longitude
-60.9902° or 60° 59′ 25″ west
Population
22,000
Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)
United Nations Location Code
LC CAS
Open location code
776X2255+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4428259435
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3576812
Wiki­data ID
Q41699
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Castries” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Castries”
  • Albanian: “Castries”
  • Amharic: “ካስትሪስ”
  • Arabic: “كاستريس”
  • Aragonese: “Castries”
  • Armenian: “Կաստրի”
  • Armenian: “Կաստրիս”
  • Asturian: “Castries”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kastris”
  • Balinese: “Castries”
  • Basque: “Castries”
  • Belarusian: “Кастры”
  • Belarusian: “Кастрыз”
  • Bengali: “কাসট্রিজ”
  • Bengali: “কাস্তেরিস”
  • Bosnian: “Castries”
  • Breton: “Castries”
  • Bulgarian: “Кастрийс”
  • Bulgarian: “Кастрис”
  • Catalan: “Castries”
  • Cebuano: “Castries (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Castries”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاستریز”
  • Chechen: “Кастри”
  • Chinese: “Castries”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特里”
  • Chinese: “卡斯翠”
  • Croatian: “Castries”
  • Czech: “Castries”
  • Danish: “Castries”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Castries”
  • Dutch: “Castries”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاستريس”
  • Esperanto: “Castries”
  • Esperanto: “Kastrizo”
  • Estonian: “Castries”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Castries”
  • Finnish: “Castries”
  • French: “Castries”
  • Galician: “Castries”
  • Georgian: “კასტრი”
  • German: “Castries”
  • Greek: “Κάστρις”
  • Guarani: “Castries”
  • Gujarati: “કાસ્ટ્રીઝ”
  • Haitian: “Kastri”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Castries”
  • Hebrew: “קסטריז”
  • Hebrew: “קסטריס”
  • Hindi: “कास्त्रीस”
  • Hindi: “कैस्ट्रीज”
  • Hungarian: “Castries”
  • Icelandic: “Castries”
  • Ido: “Castries”
  • Indonesian: “Castries”
  • Interlingue: “Castries”
  • Irish: “Castries”
  • Italian: “Castries”
  • Japanese: “カストリーズ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟ್ರೀಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кастри”
  • Kirghiz: “Кастри”
  • Korean: “캐스트리스”
  • Kotava: “Castries”
  • Latin: “Castries”
  • Latvian: “Castries”
  • Latvian: “Kastri”
  • Ligurian: “Castries”
  • Lithuanian: “Kastris”
  • Livvi: “Kastri”
  • Lombard: “Castries”
  • Luxembourgish: “Castries”
  • Macedonian: “Кастри”
  • Malagasy: “Castries”
  • Malay: “Castries”
  • Maltese: “Castries”
  • Marathi: “कास्ट्रिज”
  • Marathi: “कॅस्ट्रीझ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Castries”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Castries”
  • Minangkabau: “Castries”
  • Mingrelian: “კასტრი”
  • Moksha: “Кастри”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاستريس”
  • Northern Frisian: “Castries”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castries”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Castries”
  • Norwegian: “Castries”
  • Novial: “Castries”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Castries”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Castries”
  • Ossetian: “Кастри”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਸਤਰੀਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Castries”
  • Persian: “کاستریس”
  • Piemontese: “Castries”
  • Polish: “Castries”
  • Portuguese: “Castries”
  • Pushto: “کاستریس”
  • Romanian: “Castries”
  • Russian: “Кастри”
  • Russian: “Кастрис”
  • Sardinian: “Castries”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Castries”
  • Scots: “Castries”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Castries”
  • Serbian: “Castries”
  • Serbian: “Кастри”
  • Serbian: “Кастриз”
  • Serbian: “Кастрис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Castries”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kastri”
  • Shona: “Castries”
  • Silesian: “Castries”
  • Sinhala: “කස්ට්‍රයිස්”
  • Slovak: “Castries”
  • Slovenian: “Castries”
  • Spanish: “Castries”
  • Swahili: “Castries”
  • Swedish: “Castries (huvudstaden)”
  • Swedish: “Castries”
  • Swiss German: “Castries”
  • Tagalog: “Castries”
  • Tajik: “Кастрис”
  • Tamil: “காஸ்ட்ரீஸ்”
  • Telugu: “క్యాస్ట్రీస్”
  • Thai: “Castries”
  • Thai: “แคสตรีส์”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་སི་ཐྲིས་”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་སི་ཐྲིས།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kasitiliesi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Castries”
  • Turkish: “Castries”
  • Udmurt: “Кастри”
  • Ukrainian: “Кастрі”
  • Urdu: “کاستریس”
  • Uzbek: “Kastri”
  • Veps: “Kastri”
  • Vietnamese: “Castries”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castries”
  • Welsh: “Castries”
  • Western Frisian: “Castries”
  • Western Frisian: “Kastrys”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡斯特里”
  • Yakut: “Кастрис”
  • Yoruba: “Castries”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡斯翠”
  • Zulu: “i-Castries”
  • “Castries”

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