Castle · Vigo

Castillo de San Sebastián

Today: Castillo de San Sebastián, Vigo

Place
Vigo
Kind
Castle
Built
1656 to 1667
What remains
Standing
Visiting
Not checked

A fortress raised in 1656, with the town wall, where there had been a hermitage of San Sebastián, to protect the town from the English and the Portuguese; by 1667 the wall linking it to the Castro fortress was finished. The English left it in ruins in 1719, in the 19th century it served as a hospital and it was a barracks until 1964. In 1970 parts of the wall were pulled down to build the town hall, which occupies the site with the plaza del Rey.

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