Crop on Jamaica

In art and architecture of Jamaica agency European, mainly English, crops combines with traditions of the African people. From XVII-XVIII centuries one-storeyed stone and brick constructions (in the core in the former capital the Spanish-town) were saved. From the middle of XIX century two-storeyed wood dwellings with verandas and iron ornaments (so-called architecture of colonial style) predominated. In the XX-th century buildings of modern phylum (University of West Indies near the Kingston valve, hotels) are under construction.

Traditional national handcrafts jamajtsev have in many respects saved spirit of the African crop. JAmajtsy are engaged in the core in woodcarving and machining of metals, do also jewels. National African traditions are especially hardly felt in the Jamaican wood carved figures.