Queen's Park Savannah
"The Savannah" consists of 80 hectares (198 acres), complete with soccer, cricket, and rugby fields, and vendors hawking coconut water and rotis. This area was once a sugar plantation, but a fire in 1808 swept it and destroyed hundreds of homes. Among the Savannah's outstanding buildings is pink-and-blue Queen's Royal College, containing a clock tower with Westminster chimes. Today a school for boys, it stands on Maraval Road at the corner of St. Clair Avenue. The Roodal clan's family home -- affectionately called the "gingerbread house" by Trinidadians -- is on the same road. It was built in the baroque style of the French Second Empire.
"The Savannah" consists of 80 hectares (198 acres), complete with soccer, cricket, and rugby fields, and vendors hawking coconut water and rotis. This area was once a sugar plantation, but a fire in 1808 swept it and destroyed hundreds of homes. Among the Savannah's outstanding buildings is pink-and-blue Queen's Royal College, containing a clock tower with Westminster chimes. Today a school for boys, it stands on Maraval Road at the corner of St. Clair Avenue. The Roodal clan's family home -- affectionately called the "gingerbread house" by Trinidadians -- is on the same road. It was built in the baroque style of the French Second Empire.
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