The Spice Island's horseshoe capital — nutmeg, chocolate, and the Caribbean's most photogenic harbour
St. George's is widely considered the most beautiful capital in the Caribbean — a horseshoe harbour ringed by Georgian colonial buildings, French fort ruins, and the colourful Carenage waterfront where fishing boats and yachts share the same anchorage. Grenada is the world's second-largest nutmeg producer (after Indonesia) and the scent of nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, and mace drifts through the Saturday Spice Market. The island is also home to the most acclaimed single-origin chocolate in the Caribbean — Grenada Chocolate Company grows, ferments, and refines entirely on the island.
The French established a settlement at St. George's in 1649 (then called Fort Royal) after massacring the island's Carib people on Grand Étang's cliff — the site is still called Le Morne des Sauteurs ('Leapers' Hill'). Britain captured it in 1762, constructed Fort George and Fort Frederick, and Grenada remained British until independence in 1974. The island is still traumatised by the 1983 US invasion — Operation Urgent Fury — prompted by the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in a Marxist coup, making Grenada the only country ever invaded by the US during the Cold War to later choose…