See & do
Forts, colonial-era buildings and heritage sites, including the UNESCO-inscribed inner city.
A 17th-century Dutch pentagonal fortress on the Suriname River bank in central Paramaribo, now housing the Stichting Surinaams Museum with colonial-period collections and period rooms.
Best for first-time visitors, history interest
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The historic centre of Paramaribo is a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2002, covering a former Dutch colonial town of the 17th and 18th centuries whose original street plan and over 250 monuments survive.
Best for first-time visitors, walking tours, architecture interest
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A large mosque on Keizerstraat in central Paramaribo, in its present form dating from 1984, standing immediately next to the Neveh Shalom Synagogue.
Best for first-time visitors, architecture interest, cultural interest
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A synagogue on Keizerstraat in central Paramaribo whose congregation dates to 1665; it stands directly beside the Keizerstraat Mosque, a pairing often cited as a symbol of Suriname's religious coexistence.
Best for first-time visitors, architecture interest, cultural interest
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An open-air museum inside the walls of Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam in Commewijne, at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers opposite Paramaribo, with former prison cells and wartime artillery on the grounds.
Best for day trips, history interest, families
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A public park in central Paramaribo planted with palms, next to the Presidential Palace, holding heritage status as a historic park in the city.
Best for walking, families, first-time visitors
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A restored 18th-century coffee and later cocoa plantation on the Commewijne River, designated a monument in 2004 and now operating as a resort with a small district story museum and a heritage walking trail.
Best for overnight excursions, history interest, river trips
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The Presidential Palace of Suriname, a building dating to around 1700, faces Onafhankelijkheidsplein (Independence Square) in the historic centre of Paramaribo; both sit inside the UNESCO-inscribed historic inner city.
Best for first-time visitors, walking tours, photography
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The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Paramaribo, built of wood between 1883 and 1887 and raised to the rank of minor basilica in 2014; it is among the largest timber-built churches in South America.
Best for architecture interest, first-time visitors
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The ruins of what was once Suriname's largest sugar factory, at Marienburg in Commewijne, founded as a sugar plantation in 1745 and now a memorial site connected to the history of indentured labour.
Best for history interest, day trips
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UNESCO-listed remains of a 17th-century Jewish settlement on the Suriname River, including the ruins of what is believed to be the earliest architecturally significant synagogue in the Americas and the older Cassipora Creek cemetery.
Best for history, UNESCO, day trips
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