Nevis: the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton

The twin island of Saint Kitts, Nevis was the birthplace of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, today celebrated in a small local museum.

The center is comfortably explored by local taxi, not far from Alexander Hamilton's birthplace.

The Nevis Museum, in the house where Alexander Hamilton was born, displays documents and objects tied to the Founding Father of the United States born on this small island.

Just steps away, the Bath thermal springs, exploited since the Eighteenth century, made Nevis one of the Caribbean's first tourist destinations.

Continuing toward Nevis Peak, covered in rainforest, one organizes excursions among green monkeys introduced by French colonists centuries ago.

Toward evening, sugar plantations converted to resorts offer dinners in elegant restored colonial houses.

Alexander Hamilton, born in Nevis in 1755, left the island as a teenager for the United States, later becoming America's first Secretary of the Treasury and the subject of a celebrated musical theater production.

The African green monkeys of Nevis, introduced by French colonists in the seventeenth century as pets, today outnumber the island's human inhabitants and roam freely among the plantations.