Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2018 | Page 493

When Saba is in the news, it is almost always because of the very special nature of the Marine Park
around Saba or on the island itself because of the hiking tours in or along the rainforest.
Far too little attention has been given to the richness of cultural history, to very interesting
archaeological sites, to museums, traditional cottages and other cultural-historical places to visit.
TRADITIONAL COTTAGES
One of the most striking things in the
landscape in terms of buildings is the
traditional cottages. This is reinforced by
the fact that new houses are in principle
all due with green or brown window
frames and with red roofs.
All original traditional cottages date from
the period 1840-1900, but two were
built in 1820. If they are completely in
style, they have gabled or hipped roofs
with wooden shingles and so-called
gingerbread roof rims. There are also two
old Anglican churches, one in The Bottom
from 1777 and one in the Windwardside
from 1878.
The construction of the roofs is very
typical and based on the construction of
the ship but then the keel of the ship is
the ridge of the roof.
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What is also striking when walking past
the houses is that one discovers that the
traditional cottages very often have their
own little cemetery which is also an old
tradition.