Fort San Juan Puerto Rico
by Kasia Bitner
Title
Fort San Juan Puerto Rico
Artist
Kasia Bitner
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
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Castillo San Cristobal, also known as Fort San Cristobal, is a fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was built by Spain to protect against land based attacks on the city of San Juan. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site.
Castillo San Cristobal is the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. When it was finished in 1783, it covered about 27 acres of land and basically wrapped around the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristobal's double gates. After close to one hundred years of relative peace in the area, part of the fortification (about a third) was demolished in 1897 to help ease the flow of traffic in and out of the walled city.
This fortress was built on a hill originally known as the Cerro de la Horca or the Cerro del Quemadero, which was changed to Cerro de San Cristobal in celebration of the Spanish victories ejecting English and Dutch interlopers from the island of this name in the Lesser Antilles, then forming part of the insular territorial glacis of Puerto Rico.
Castillo de San Cristobal (Fort San Cristobal) also contains cisterns, that were used for the transport of water during the ages of the Spanish Colony. They are extremely huge (30ft tall, 60ft wide and 100ft long) and were used as bomb shelters during World War II. They could be used for a future war again with some refurbishments.
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March 12th, 2017
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Mariola Bitner
Thank you Becki Kremer for featuring my "Fort San Juan Puerto Rico" in the group Caribbean Life!
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Thank you Jouko for featuring my "Fort San Juan Puerto Rico" in the group Art from the Past!
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Thank you Karen Silvestri for featuring my "Fort San Juan Puerto Rico" in the group Lady Photographers and Artists!
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Thank you Chrisann Ellis for featuring my "Fort San Juan Puerto Rico" in the group Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums New Work!
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Thank you Rebecca Malo for featuring my "Fort San Juan Puerto Rico" in the group Pin Me - Daily!
Maria Hunt
Brilliant work with perspective, composition and colors... This had to bean incredible moment! F/L
Ella Kaye Dickey
favorite of the day; just fabulous pov; angles and look at historical architecture l/f/t