FORT KING GEORGE ET LE TOBAGO MUSEUM

Fifty meters from the highest houses, at the top of the hill overlooking Scarborough, past the public hospital and prison, rise the walls of Fort King George, built to defend Little Rockly Bay and Scarborough in the 1770s. Reminiscent of Fort George in Trinidad, it offers spectacular views of both the ocean and the city. It is the best-preserved military structure from the time of the English colonial presence on the island of Tobago. French troops also occupied it from 1781 to 1793, before it was taken over by the English, who waited until 1804 to name it Fort King George in honor of King George III. The fort lost its military functions in 1854, but you can still see the cannon battery pointing out to sea, as well as the barracks, prison and officers' mess.

The Tobago Museum is housed in the barracks of the former colonial guard. The first floor of this small but interesting museum displays relics of the island's past, from the remains of Amerindian occupation to old beer bottles thrown from ships' decks and found buried in the coastal sands. On the first-floor wall, old Spanish, Dutch, French and English maps, as well as a whole series of administrative documents, hark back to the various periods of colonial occupation of the island.