Fort Point, San Francisco

Fort Point, known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín (Spanish for "Saint Joachim's Castle") is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. It is also the geographic name of the promontory upon which the fort and the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge were constructed.

The site was originally fortified by the Spanish in 1794 as a complementary defense outpost to the Presidio of San Francisco. The current structure was completed by the United States Army after the U.S. conquest of California and just before the American Civil War, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is now popular as a tourist viewing point of the Golden Gate Bridge directly on top of it.

Texto adaptado de «Fort Point National Historic Site» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Point, San Francisco ranks #1788 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #45 of the 98 mapped in Estados Unidos. Fundado en 1848, más antiguo que el 10% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 407 atlas entries founded in the siglo XIX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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