Philippines · 17th century
The Real Fuerte de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza (Royal Fort of Our Lady of the Pillar of Saragossa), also known as Fort Pilar, is a 17th-century military defense fortress built by the Spanish colonial government in Zamboanga City. The fort, which is now a regional museum of the National Museum of the Philippines, is a major landmark of the city and it symbolizes the city's cultural heritage.
Outside the eastern wall is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, the city patroness, pontifically crowned on 12 October 1960 following a papal decree on 18 September 1960.
Text adapted from “Fort Pilar” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Pilar ranks #2,636 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #4 of the 14 mapped in Philippines. Founded c. 1650, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 708 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,894 times in the last 60 days, more than 68% of the atlas. See how Philippines compares in the castle statistics.
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