Nassau · Sports & events

The national stadium west of downtown hosts athletics championships in spring and early summer, plus football and the national side. Entry is inexpensive.

Locally built wooden sloops with vast sails and pry boards race off Montagu Bay through spring and summer, feeding into the Family Island regattas.

An eight-team American college basketball tournament played in a ballroom court at the Atlantis resort over three days in late November.

Rival groups compete in a judged street parade of drums, cowbells and crepe-paper costumes through the small hours at Christmas and New Year.