Welcome to St George (67 km2/25 mi2), Grenada’s second largest parish and home to the capital city of St George’s. Its population (of approximately 27,400 people) is scattered across the parish, including the main town (and port) of St George’s, coastal villages like Fort Jeudy, Lance aux Epines, Calivigny, Woburn, Morne Rouge, Grand Anse, Cherry Hill, Grand Mal, Moliniere, Happy Hill, Beausejour and Brizan, and inland villages like Morne Jaloux, Hope Vale, Springs, Mardigras, Mt Parnassus, La Mode, Boca, Vendome, Mt Moritz and New Hampshire. 

In 1764 it was renamed St George after the patron saint of England (and King George III), replacing the French name Basse-Terre. St George is situated predominantly on the sheltered leeward coast and provides superb anchorage at its central port with a deep-water harbor, and along its coasts. Continuous French and British settlement led to the economic development of St George far ahead of the other districts. The dryer southern coast, dotted with many beaches, particularly Grand Anse Beach, has developed as a tourism recreational area, with many grand and small hotels and guest houses, and quality restaurants.

The parish has a long and rich history, illustrated by the several important Indigenous archaeological sites, especially at Point Salines and Beausejour. In the 1650s French settlers, having arrived in 1649, displaced the Kalinago in a series of bloody confrontations. By the 1660s the French created the parish of St Jacques et St Philippe, with a chapel at the Ville du Fort Royal. Its plantation agriculture dates to slavery, beginning with numerous indigo estates (1600s), but especially cotton and sugar plantations powered by watermills, with ruins of sugar works barely visible at Beausejour, Calivigny and Moliniere. A glimpse of its historic architecture can be seen throughout the town of St George’s, much of it dating to the 1800s and exemplified in its forts, churches, and buildings along the Carenage, and Lucas, Young and Melville Streets. St George parish has much to offer with its beautiful Georgian “City on the Hill,” spectacular views from the rim of the volcano at Richmond Hill and Old Fort, the three kilometers of exquisite white sandy Grand Anse Beach, the Underwater Sculpture Park off Moliniere Point, the coral reefs at Dragon Bay, Annandale Waterfall, a stay at the elegant Calivigny Island, the educational complex at St George’s University, the fortifications overlooking St George’s, and the reserves at Mt Hartman and Perseverance to protect the Grenada dove, the islands’ national bird.