United States · 19th century
El Fortín Conde de Mirasol, also known as Fuerte de Vieques, is a fort built in 1845 located in the town of Isabel Segunda in Vieques, an island municipality of Puerto Rico. In 1991, the fort was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. The structure houses the Vieques Museum of Art and History and the Vieques Historic Archives, an extensive collection of documents related to the history of Vieques. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.
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Vieques Fort ranks #6,936 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #104 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1845, it is older than 9% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 717 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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