A dignified and verdant rectangle that’s bordered with, among others, the public library and the island’s most reknown Catholic church, the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia in 1930, won a Nobel Prize for literature. Plaques within the park honor Walcott with a verse from his epic poem, Ste. Lucie. (“Moi c’est gens Ste. Lucie: C’est la moi sortie, is there that I born.”) A few steps away is a plaque commemorating another island-born luminary, Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915-1979), winner of a Nobel Prize for economics, whose face appears on St. Lucia’s EC$100 bills. Both commemorative plaques are sheltered by the branch canopy of an enormous 500-year-old “Masav tree”, (called Masav which is Creole for “I don’t know”), since most locals have no idea of the tree’s species.