Walls of Cartagena
Stone ramparts and angled bastions built over nearly two centuries to repel pirate raids.
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This guide to the Walls of Cartagena traces a construction project so costly that Spain's own ledgers couldn't agree on how long it took, begun after pirate raids, Francis Drake among them, convinced the crown to fortify the city for good. It walks through the logic behind each bastion, angled so cannon fire from one could sweep the base of the next, and the 1697 raid by the Baron de Pointis that tested those defenses despite everything already spent. Look for the angled stone platforms bulging toward the sea as you walk the ramparts.
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