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MONTEGO BAY HIGHLIGHTS Enjoy our sightseeing tour that includes a panoramic drive of the Montego Bay area passing such sights as Montego Bay Marine Park, Sam Sharp Square, Hip Strip, Margaritaville, Hurricane Disco and Ironshore (the largest residential area with its magnificent villas. Shop at the local craft markets for straw items, carvings and souvenirs and also visit the duty-free shops in the Montego Bay City Centre.
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ROSE HALL GREAT HOUSE This stunning mansion with its commanding hilltop position two miles east of Ironshore, is the most famous house in Jamaica. It’s also one of the most magnificent and visited, enticing over 100,000 callers a year The imposing house was built in the 1770 by John Palmer, a wealthy plantation owner and Custos of St. James Parish. Palmer and his wife Rose (after whom the house was named) hosted some of the most elaborate social gatherings on the island. Slaves destroyed the house in the Christmas Rebellion of 1831, and it was left in ruins for over a century. In 1966 John Rollins, a former lieutenant governor of the US state of Delaware, bought the property and lavished over US$2.5 million on it to restore it to haughty grandeur.
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