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Bequia Villas
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While exploring the island, Otmar and his wife Sonja stumbled upon a lonely spot some 140 m above the sea, a place with a glorious view over The Grenadines. Formidable walls, ancient water cisterns and heavy foundations, abandoned!
The discovery haunted him and when he returned to Bequia the next year, he was able to purchase the land where the ruins stood. When the excavation began, more ruins were uncovered - a building which suggested a distinct Mediterranean style. Thus the detective work began. What had he discovered?
The first European settlers in the Grenadine islands were French. They had a string of fortifications along the islands to protect their interests against the English. But the French were mainly there as planters. People remembered that there had been a plantation on the site and, sure enough, Otmar was able to track down the 18 th century maps - dating back to 1763 - showing a sugar-and indigo plantation on the site with the estate house marked.
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