Home  Travel    Resorts    Attractions   World Heritage Sites in Gambia History       River Gambia   Criteria: Sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List on the basis of cultural criteria (3) and (6). (3): Sites on the River Gambia provide an excellent testimony to the different aspects of the African-European encounter from the 15th to 20th centuries. The River Gambia formed the first trade route into the interior of Africa and became an early route for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. (6): Villages and batteries, were directly and physically associated with the beginning and the conclusion of the slave trade. List of 7 World Heritage Sites (Gambia): • Fort Bullen (Barra, North Bank)     • James Island (Kunta Kinteh Island)     • CFAO Building   The CFAO (Compagnie Francaise d'Afrique Occidentale) Building was built in 1847 on the shoreline at Albreda.     • Maurel Freres Building   Built by the British colonialists in 1840 it was last occupied by a Lebanese merchant whose name was Maurel. Today it is the used as a museum with a permanent exhibition called 'Voyage of No Return - The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Senegambia.'     • Remains of Portuguese Chapel   Built in Albreda around the 15th century it represents one of the earliest Portuguese churches to be found in the Senegambia region.     • San Domingo   This was the foreign quarter of an old Portuguese trade post which lays on the river's edge. It was established by the Portuguese in the late 15th century and settled by Luso-African traders. It is now just ruins.     • Six-Gun Battery    Situated in the capital at the site of the old barracks on the mouth of the Gambia River. See Banjul History                 Home    Disclaimer   Privacy Policy Copyright © 2009 Access Gambia All Rights Reserved.