Battery · Almería
Castillo de San Telmo
Today: Castillo y faro de San Telmo, Almería
- Place
- Almería
- Kind
- Battery
- Built
- 1772
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
A bastion for four guns built in 1772 to defend the port of Almería, on top of a promontory more than 70 metres above the bay. Badly damaged in the Peninsular War, it was restored in the 19th century, and since 1864 it has held a lighthouse, a white tower with a black band and the indalo figure.
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