Baluarte de la Concepción Alta

Today: Museo Histórico Militar de Melilla, Melilla

Place: Melilla
Kind: Fort
Built: 1669 to 1773
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The bastion raised in 1669 on the Sancti Spiritu tower (1527) and rebuilt between 1767 and 1773 to a design by Juan Caballero. It served as a weather observatory, as housing and as the municipal museum. Since 15 July 1997 it has housed the Historical Military Museum in its old powder store, with cannon and mortars on the outer platforms.

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