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Construction of the fortress, initially named Fortaleza de la Limpia Pura e Inmaculada Concepción, was begun on March 10, 1673, and completed in 1675. [5] Despite the construction of the fortress, buccaneer William Dampier plundered the city and set it on fire on April 8, 1685.
San Cristóbal, alongside El Morro, La Fortaleza, and other forts part of the Walls of Old San Juan, protected strategically and militarily important Puerto Rico, or La Llave de las Indias (The Key to the Indies), [6] from invasion by competing world powers during the Age of Sail. It was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983. [7]
The Community offers 24 hours of AM Radio programming. Radio Shalom 690 AM from Fortaleza interacts with the internet public in Brazil and worldwide in its programming. It can be accessed from the Community Portal. [citation needed] On July 24, 2019, Shalom FM 91.7, the community's first FM station, was inaugurated.
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean. [1] The world heritage site consists of several historic defensive structures built by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries to defend the ...
The Antonia Fortress (Aramaic: קצטרא דאנטוניה) [a] was a citadel built by Herod the Great and named for Herod's patron Mark Antony, as a fortress whose chief function was to protect the Second Temple.
The Fort São João Baptista da Foz (Forte de São João Baptista da Foz in Portuguese), is located in the parish of Foz do Douro, in the municipality and District of Porto, in Portugal. It stands in a dominant position at the mouth of the Douro river, overseeing the access the city of Porto via the river.
La Fortaleza from the Bay of San Juan as recorded in the 1671 edition of John Ogilby's America, one of the most influential works of the 17th century. La Fortaleza was the first defensive fortification built in the historic city of Old San Juan, originally known as Ciudad de Puerto Rico (rich port city), and the first of a series of military structures built to protect the city, which included ...
The Fortaleza del Cerro, also known as Fortaleza General Artigas, is a fortress situated in Montevideo, Uruguay overlooking the Bay of Montevideo. It belongs to the barrio of Casabó , at the west of Villa del Cerro .