Fort San Lucian

Fort San Lucian (Maltese: Forti San Luċjan), also known as Saint Lucian Tower (Maltese: Torri ta' San Luċjan) or Fort Rohan (Maltese: Forti Rohan), is a large bastioned watchtower and polygonal fort in Marsaxlokk, Malta. The original tower was built by the Order of Saint John between 1610 and 1611, being the second of six Wignacourt towers.

An artillery battery was added around 1715, and the complex was upgraded into a fort in the 1790s. In the 1870s, the fort was rebuilt by the British in the polygonal style. Saint Lucian Tower is the second largest watchtower in Malta, after Saint Thomas Tower. Today, the tower and fort are used by the Malta Aquaculture Research Centre.

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Fort San Lucian ranks #4,358 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #18 of the 29 mapped in Malta. Founded 1610, it is older than 31% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 626 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 25 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Malta compares in the castle statistics.

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