Castillo de San Felipe

Today: Castillo de San Felipe, Es Castell

Place: Villacarlos (Es Castell)
Kind: Fort
Built: c. 1552 to 1798
What remains: Ruins
Visiting: Open to visit

The bastioned fortress begun in 1552 on the south shore of the mouth of Mahón harbour, which Juan Bautista Calvi redesigned from 1554, one of the first of its kind in Spain. The British strengthened it; the Franco-Spanish army demolished it in 1782, the British rebuilt part of it in 1798 and Charles IV ordered it demolished again in 1805. Ruins and underground galleries remain today, and part of them has been opened to the public.

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