Castillo de Santa Catalina

Today: Castillo de Santa Catalina, Cádiz

Place: Cádiz
Kind: Fort
Built: 1597 to 1693
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A pentagonal fortress of Italian influence, with star-like points running out into the sea. After the Anglo-Dutch assault of 1596, Philip II commissioned Cristóbal de Rojas to build it by royal decree of 25 October 1597; the engineer died before finishing it and the work was less ambitious than the plan. The chapel and sacristy date from 1693, from 1769 it was a military prison, the Ministry of Defence stopped using it in 1991 and today it holds cultural events.

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