Fuerte de San Fernando de Bocachica
Horseshoe-shaped colonial fort with cannon bulwarks guarding a channel into a pirate-era harbor.
This guide to the Fuerte de San Fernando de Bocachica in Cartagena opens with English admiral Edward Vernon sailing through the city's defenses in 1741 with a fleet of more than a hundred and eighty ships, and the panic that sent Spain's engineers to rebuild the harbor from scratch. It follows Antonio de Arévalo's six years spent raising this horseshoe-shaped fort to close the Bocachica channel, its bulwarks bristling with cannons aimed to cross fire with Fort San José across the water. You'll see the seawater moat and the stone galleries built to hide gunpowder mines against a land assault the fort was built to expect.
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