Castillo de San Fernando

Today: Castillo de San Fernando, Figueras

Place: Figueras
Kind: Fort
Built: 1753 to 1766
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The largest bastioned fortress of 18th-century Europe, according to the Spanish article, built to replace the fort of Bellegarde, which passed to France during the negotiations of the Treaty of the Pyrenees. Its first stone was laid on 13 December 1753 and it was inaugurated in 1766, with Juan and Pedro Martín Cermeño as engineers; its name honours Ferdinand VI. It was the last fortress the French handed back, in June 1814; Republican forces blew up part of it in 1939 and today it is visited with a guide.

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