San Fernando de Omoa — Bastion Walls

The story behind the place

San Fernando de Omoa was built to defend a Spanish colonial port on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. Its unusually triangular plan departed from the familiar four-bastion fortress. Thick sloping walls and projecting defensive corners made the building an instrument of imperial control as well as military engineering. The surviving masonry invites a closer look at how stone, brick and lime were combined to resist attack and the coastal climate.

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