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Castillo de Santa Catalina

Santa Cruz de la Palma, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Castillo de Santa Catalina

Monument · Santa Cruz de la Palma, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

A fortress with a quadrangular plan and diamond-pointed bastions, first built between 1554 and 1560 after the 1553 corsair attack and rebuilt between 1676 and 1701 following the canons of Italian military engineering. It was registered as a Monumento Histórico-Artístico, the heritage designation used in Spain between 1931 and 1985, in 1951.

1554-1560; reconstruido 1676-1701; monumento histórico-artístico en 1951

Photo: Ipatia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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