San Juan National Historic Site - Puerto Rico

Lídia also visited Puerto Rico and brought me these 2 cards. I only had 1 Puerto Rico card and it was an old one of the San Cristóbal Fort. San Cristóbal and San Felipe del Morro forts are two of the features included in San Juan National Historic Site.

San Juan National Historic Site in San Juan, Puerto Rico, includes colonial-era forts, bastions, powder houses, and three fourths of the old city wall.

On December 6, 1983 the park was added to the list of World Heritage Site. Only 12 national park areas in the United States are considered World Heritage Sites. - in: wikipedia

Photos by Richard Spenceley & Angela Spenceley

El Morro, started in 1540, is the oldest European construction in the National Park Service. It is part of a massive fortification system developed on the island of Puerto Rico to help Spain control access and commerce into the Caribbean until the Spanish American War in 1898.

Photos by George Collazo

Projecting strength and power, Fort San Cristóbal dates back to the early 17th century. It defended San Juan from landward attacks and is the largest Spanish fortification in the New World.

San Juan - Puerto Rico

This is an used Puerto Rico card i won in a lottery and it was sent from Norway by "BenteA".
Before postcrossing i thought Puerto Rico was a country but is a semi-autonomous territory of the United States.

This is "the Castillo de San Cristóbal is a Spanish fort in San Juan. It was built by the Spaniards to protect against land based attacks on the city of San Juan. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site (includes colonial-era forts, bastions, powder houses, and three fourths of the old city wall - classified as an Unesco World Heritage Site since 1983.)
Castillo de San Cristóbal 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, basically wrapping the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal'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." - in: wikipedia.