Bastion of Santa Catalina
Seaward stone bastion of the Italian-style walled fortress ring, rebuilt after pirate attack.
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This guide to the Bastion of Santa Catalina in Cartagena opens with a strange gap: twenty-two years passed between a French privateer smashing this bastion apart in 1697 and the city finally repairing it. It goes back to 1614, when engineers under governor Diego de Acuna broke ground on the wall and then argued for years over how thick an Italian-style bastion needed to be to stop an English or French landing party. Stand at the seaward face and look toward the corners, where cannon once sat aimed north along the Cruz Grande approach.
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