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Features
The area contains several reefs and with clear blue waters its good for
snorkeling. Ocassionally you may even spot a turtle surfacing
for a breath of air. There are also areas along this coast that are excellent
for swimming. This is typically a quiet beach, and is the ideal spot to
relax with a good book under the shade, or enjoying the sea and sun.
Picnic benches are scattered among the
Casuarina trees lining the shore, and to
the north is a small, open esplanade complete with
benches.
Dining
Fitts Village also boasts of having one of a very select
group of restaurants on the entire island:
Il Tempio. Looking onto the Caribbean Sea, this West Coast place of fine dining, just about ten minutes from Bridgetown, is the only Italian one in the district and one of a few in all of Barbados.
Il Tempio spares nothing in its classic Italian-style menu, but also allows for contemporary tastes and needs.
Accommodation
Many properties on this section of the West
Coast have been changed or upgraded to apartments and well-appointed
beach villas.
There are several guesthouses and vacation apartments
in the area as well as a few luxury villas.
Just 200m from the beach is the lovely Villa Marie Guesthouse. Peaches apartment is a 59-second walk to the beach in Fitts Village.
Business
And if you need to do business, the Jordan Complex
may just be the place for you with its varied commercial
services, doctor¹s office, pharmacy and extended
supermarket.
This itself is one of the signal monuments to the development and progress
of the people of Fitts Village: this commercial hub fashioned and sustained
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Fitts Village - The heritage
The Fitt family over time sold off much of its property to other aspiring
landowners; and by the time tourism and its ancillary services had gripped
the West Coast district, more and more properties had changed hands.
Several Barbadian families small and large, poor and rich came into
ownership of land in Fitts Village. The most prominent of these were the
Chapmans, Scotts, Jordans, Williamses, Gaskins and Sealys.
In the early 1980s, during the Tom Adams Government which introduced the
Tenantries And Freeholding Act, tenants were able to purchase the lots they
once rented. And, more Fitts Village residents were able to buy land from
the Fitts and other large property owners.
Among other well-known Bajan families coming out of the Fitts Village
experience have been the Carmichaels and Forbeses.
Today, former radio show host and one of Barbados' most famous priests,
Father Andrew Hatch, has retired to Fitts Village.
Fish was a staple of the community - and still is - but not without its
ample share of learning and spirituality. The Good Shepherd School once
housed in the Good Shepherd Church offered much educational grounding to
the people of Fitts Village. A new school now stands elsewhere in the same
area.
Today, the Church of The Good Shepherd continues to offer spiritual food
along with the traditional Pentecostal churches that abound in the district.
Located along the shore, the Church of The Good Shepherd is perfect
for a tropical wedding.
In Barbados you will find a rumshop on almost every street
corner. In Fitts Village there have been a good number of these little
rustic bars and
cookshops some of which have given way to the more sophisticated. This has
come from a strengthened tourism industry. 
Church of The Good Shepherd
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This district on the west coast of Barbados is ideal for a relaxing Caribbean vacation.