Mexico · 18th century
San Felipe Fortress ranks #7,798 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #7 of the 10 mapped in Mexico. Founded 1733, it is older than 18% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how Mexico compares in the castle statistics.
The San Felipe Fortress, or Castle of San Felipe de Bacalar, was an 18th-century New Spanish presidio situated in Bacalar, state of Quintana Roo, in Mexico. Today it houses the Museum of Piracy of Bacalar.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte de San Felipe de Bacalar” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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