Barios – Rais.cw

Pannekoek

In July 1725 people already spoke of "the piece of land of Gerrit Pannekoek, who had laid out a plantation here with the name Klein Kolonie". It was…

Penstraat (part 1)

The Penstraat, one of the oldest streets on Curaçao, has a very colourful history, partly thanks to its many striking residents. It was earlier…

Penstraat (part 2)

Part 1 told the history of one of the oldest streets on Curaçao, mentioning among other things "The Government Premises at the Penn". This is the…

Pietermaai

In the Jewish synagogue in Willemstad stands a fine example of joinery art from 1700. It is the ark, a large cabinet in which the Torah scrolls are…

Pietermaai 2

From the former office of the newspaper Vigilante in Pietermaai, various little alleys run eastwards from the Waaigat, laid out in such a way that…

Piscadera

The Piscaderabaai is the first inlet west of the city on the south coast. The original Indian name of the bay is Maniguacóa. At the Spanish conquest…

Plantersrust

Situated at the end of the Roodeweg, Plantersrust — around 1852 well over 50 hectares in size — marked the edge of the city. It was also called Seru…

Pos Kabai

The landhuis and former plantaadje Pos Kabai (Horse Well) lies in the former Ruiterkwartier. The landhuis, restored to full glory, now serves as the…

Raphaël

Like Klein Piscadera, Plantation Raphael was also part of the original plantation Groot Piscadera. Although it was officially also called Klein…

Rio Canario

Including Emmastad

Ronde Klip

The most striking thing about the former plantation Ronde Klip is the plantation house, built in a unique monumental classicist style. The oldest…

Rooi Santu

Rooi Santu lies north-east of Jan Thiel, east of Zuurzak, south of Scherpenheuvel and south-west of the neighbourhoods Hanenberg and Montaña Abou…

Ruiterkwartier

The former Ruyterquartier (Riders' Quarter) was around 1900 one of the most water-rich and thus also one of the most beautiful areas of Curaçao, with…

Rust (en Vrede)

This simple, small and traditional landhuis, also called Rust, was probably built in the early 19th century. Because it also has various outbuildings…

Sabana di Huncu/ Muizenberg Nobo

Sabana (di) Hu(n)cu / Muizenberg Nobo

San Nicolas

San Nicolas can't really be called a bario: no residential core, church or schools. Only the landhuis has stood here for centuries on a lonely…

San Pedro and Karké

An idyllic country lane between the many column cacti leads from the Weg naar Westpunt to the small former plantation San Pedro which, because of its…

Santa Helena

The first television broadcast ever on Curaçao took place from landhuis Santa Helena. Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen writes that this broadcast came about…

Scharloo

Video documentary

Scherpenheuvel

It is almost unknown that Scherpenheuvel, alias Skèrpènè, was once a plantation with an accompanying landhuis. The plantation house disappeared in…

Seru Fortuna

Seru Fortuna, also called Sierra Fortuna (1844), Fortuyn or Sero Papaye, is a hill plateau and residential neighbourhood north of Stenen Koraal and…

Siberie

Siberie, also called Sint Jooris and for a long time "Malpais", is a plantation that was split off from the larger government plantation Malpais*…

Sòrsaka

Sorsaka is the name, derived from Soursack Thuin, as the Dutch occupiers already called it in 1655.

Soto

The plantations Groot and Klein Santa Martha were laid out at the beginning of the 18th century. Together with San Nicolaas, further west, they made…

Steenrijk

At the name Kustbatterij (Coastal Battery) on Curaçao we first think of the public-housing dwellings built on the hill at Steenrijk. Less well known…

Stenen Koraal

The former plantation Steenen Koraal (Kurá di Piedra), formerly also called Steene Coraal or Zeegening, owes its name to the fact that it was…

Suffisant

The Suffisant zone consists, besides Suffisant, of the neighbourhoods Muizenberg Bieu, Weis Afó, Quinta Violeta, Monte Carmelo, San Domingo near Rio…

Tera Kòrá and surroundings

Tera Kòrá – red earth – and the small neighbourhoods Pos di Wanga, Duzu and Baai Klaas on the Weg naar Westpunt: white clay, the seter, the…

Tra’i Seru

Traai Seroe, or Tra'i Seru, is the hilly region west of Jongbloed and the residential district Cas Cora and north of the former plantation Corrie…

Tucacas

The story of Tucacas reads like a local "krioyo" novel, including historical and cultural ingredients such as the mysterious neighbourhood name, the…