Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo

巴拿马加勒比海岸的防御工事：波托韦洛－圣洛伦索

🇮🇹 Panama📅 1980 Inscribed

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo

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Magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defence system built by the Spanish Crown to protect transatlantic trade.

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Outstanding examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture

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One of the most heavily fortified Spanish coastal control points in the Americas

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Portobelo grew into a strategic stronghold for the Spanish Crown in the New World