Fort · Cartagena
Castillo de Galeras
Today: Castillo de Galeras, Cartagena
- Place
- Cartagena
- Kind
- Fort
- Built
- c. 1751 to 1777
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Closed
The fort raised in the second half of the 18th century on the Galeras hill to protect Cartagena's shipyards. Mateo Vodopich finished in 1777 the work Pedro Martín-Paredes Cermeño had begun: a rectangular plan with five bastions, a moat and a drawbridge. It belongs to the armed forces and is closed to visitors.
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