Castillo de San Marcos Fort Lapel Pin

Company

National Park Service

Price

$6.95

Source

Official Store

The shape of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fortress in North America, provided a stout defense for colonial Spanish St. Augustine. The main walls, which are lined with bombproof vaults for storing food and ammunition, form a large hollow square. At each corner large, diamond shaped blocks called bastions project out. Sentries on the bastions could watch all the surfaces of the forts walls with no hidden blind spots. The angular outline of the Castillo's walls also allows a cannon on one part of the fort to protect or cover the other sides it overlooks. There was no way to come…