Curaçao Lies Outside the Main Hurricane Belt

Willemstad's harbor was a key trading center, a history now remembered at the Kura Hulanda Museum.

These colonial country houses are often painted in bright colors and some now serve as museums.

The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Willemstad dates to 1732, and its congregation to 1651.

That year the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved, and Curaçao gained self-governance within the Kingdom.