Castries
Castries is the capital city of Saint Lucia. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 22,000 residents
- Description: capital of Saint Lucia
- Also known as: “Port Castries”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hospital and Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Castries.
Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Tsca, Public domain.
A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Castries
Church
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 Derek Walcott Square in Castries, Saint Lucia.
Mindoo Phillip Park
Pitch
Mindoo Phillip Park is a multipurpose stadium located in Marchand, Castries, Saint Lucia. It is a training and competition venue for cricket, association football, rugby and track and field, among other sports.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cul De Sac and Deglos.
Deglos
Locality
Deglos is a settlement on the island of Saint Lucia; 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. Deglos is situated 2½ miles south of Castries.
Castries
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Ciceron, Castries, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.0096° or 14° 0′ 35″ northLongitude
-60.9902° or 60° 59′ 25″ westPopulation
22,000Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)United Nations Location Code
LC CASOpen location code
776X2255+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4428259435OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- 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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