City Gloss

Port-Royal was the former stronghold of pirates on Jamaica after the English were able to conquer the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean piracy in the area experienced a new peak. Even Hollywood has made this theme to the film, the latest works of which run in the cinemas. The Spanish merchant ships were the target of the pirates, they were fully loaded with valuable treasures on the way to Europe, in the old world. The Caribbean Sea offers an ideal place to RAID merchant ships with numerous small islands. Henry Morgan was probably the best known and most feared pirate of the time.

The former capital of Jamaica, Port Royal was the port of pirates, here the treasures have been implemented, much of which was spent again. Port Royal is situated on a promontory from Kingston, today it is a fishing village with a population of barely 2,000. At that time it was one of the richest cities in the world. The city was famed, moral-and Sittenlos it should have gone to here. No wonder, the pirates and their hired seafarers will equal their pay again in the pubs and Joy houses have left. It was a golden age which abruptly ended. At the end of the 17th century, an earthquake destroyed the city.

The city was built on sand, by the quake, the sand is liquefied and the city was engulfed by the sea. It is rumored that even today many treasures on the bottom of the sea from Port Royal to be. The Government asked companies to look for the treasures of the sunken city. The city was repeatedly rebuilt and again destroyed by earthquake. Today no longer reminiscent of the riches of bygone days.