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.

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Fort Point, San Franciscoは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界1,782位（全3,734件中）、アメリカ合衆国の50件では42位にランクされています。1848年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の10%より古い城です（19世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の267件のひとつ）。アメリカ合衆国が他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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