Baluarte de San Ignacio
Colonial stone bastion where a fortress wall was rebuilt outward to keep a Jesuit college from breaching the defenses.
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This guide to Baluarte de San Ignacio in Cartagena follows a dispute between colonial engineers and the Jesuit college built right against the bastion's wall, over the doors the priests cut through the city's defenses. You'll hear how Cristóbal de Roda raised the bastion in 1617 to a design by Bautista Antonelli, and how the standoff over those doors dragged on for decades before the Spanish Crown ordered the wall rebuilt further out. It traces the strip of ground that resulted, meant to keep soldiers patrolling free of any Jesuit door. Stand at the seam between the two walls and look for where the older stone ends.
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