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Castillo de San Juan Bautista

🇪🇸 Spanien · 17. Jahrhundert

Castillo de San Juan Bautista in Spanien
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Land
🇪🇸 Spanien
Typ
Burg
Bekanntheit
Geheimtipp
Jahrhundert
17. Jahrhundert
Gegründet
1641
Koordinaten
28.45556°, -16.2525°
Offene Daten
Wikidata Q2073408

The Castle of St John the Baptist (Spanish: Castillo de San Juan Bautista), also called the Black Castle (Castillo Negro), is a fort on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain. It was the second-most important fort in the defence of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital.

It is located in the heart of the capital near the Parque Marítimo César Manrique and behind the Auditorio de Tenerife. Its construction was started in 1641 and completed in 1644. It was later rebuilt in 1765 with the addition of a cylindrical tower facing the sea. It served as a military fort until 1924. It was converted to a military museum in 1948.

In 1684, Charles II of Spain gave the power to appoint the castilian, or warden of the castle, to the Cabildo de Tenerife, the island's governing body. This appointment, along with that of the Castle of San Cristóbal, were coveted by the island's nobility as an honour, but also for two important reasons: it was the most important way to prove their noble status, with a view to entering orders, joining the military or the maestranza de caballería (noble militia), and due to the privileges attached to the position: they were in charge of everything related to health, the port police, granting permits for the entry and exit of the ships, they charged the right to fish, they mediated between the conflicts between fishermen and townsfolk, besides taking care of correspondence and collecting tariffs on salt and flour.

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Castillo de San Juan Bautista steht weltweit auf Platz 1.706 von 2.400 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 61 der 88 in Spanien verzeichneten. Gegründet 1641, ist es älter als 35% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 169 Atlas-Objekten, die im 17. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Spanien abschneidet.

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