Fort San Diego in Acapulco

Welcome to another star fort.

This one is overlooking the bay in Acapulco, Mexico.

 

Yes, that is just a model of the fort (but it is inside the visitor centre at the real fort!)

Okay, so much for the teasing. Let’s enter the real fort.

 The view from the front entrance is very inviting isn’t it.

(Click on the photo to enlarge it and you might be able to see the cannon.)

That lovely yellow colour is most prominent in the courtyard.

Walking up that ramp on the left, one comes to the open rooftop (remember this is Mexico so the fort did not need to protect itself from snow, etc.) and is treated to a beautiful view of the bay. Some days you can see cruise ships “parked” down there.

The sun is extremely hot though…especially with all that brilliant white to reflect the sunlight!

If you look back at the third photo on this page, you will see barred doors along the walls of the fort. Go inside some of those doors and you find artifacts and reconstructions of what life was like in the fort way-back-when.

They had sun roofs back then!

Hope we have tempted you to visit El Fuerte de San Diego and learn more about the Spanish Empire days.

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Happy travels!