Haiti · 15th century
La Navidad ("The Nativity", i.e. Christmas) was a Spanish fort that Christopher Columbus and his crew built on the northwest coast of Hispaniola (near present day Caracol, Nord-Est Department, Haiti) in 1492 from the remains of the Spanish ship the Santa María during his first voyage. La Navidad was the first European settlement established in the New World during the Age of Discovery, although it was destroyed by Indigenous people by the following year.
Text adapted from “La Navidad” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Navidad ranks #535 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 3 mapped in Haiti. Founded 1492, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 14,748 times in the last 60 days, more than 96% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Haiti compares in the castle statistics.
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