The Cloister

The grounds of The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort in the Bahamas are beautiful, but The Cloister has to be one of the most impressive areas on the resort and it is consider as the most beautiful historical sites in the Bahamas! The Cloister, which is located on Ocean Drive and overlooks Nassau Harbour, is the ruins of a French monastery that dates back to the 1300s. It's one of just four stone constructions to have ever been lifted from French land. The Cloister is becoming a popular location for weddings.

The Cloisters are the most magnificent architectural surprise in Nassau. This was part of a 12th-century Augustinian monastery for monks from Montréjeau, a tiny town near the Spanish border in southern France. Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst bought this magnificent colonnade in the 1920s. Huntington Hartford bought it in the early 1960s as part of his Paradise Island development. J. J. Castremanne expertly completed the reassembly across from Versailles Gardens, which took two years and was completed in 1968. Silence, a white statue, stands in the center.

Location: The Cloister, Paradise Island Dr, Bahamas