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This article lists Forts and Gates that were constructed during Santo Domingo's colonial rule. Many of these forts were incorporated into a
*Fuerte de la Concepcion
*Fuerte de la Caridad
*Fuerte de San Lazaro (Fort of Saint Lazarus)
*Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort of Saint Michael)
*Fuerte de San Francisco
*El Fuerte de Santa Barbara
*Fuerte de la Carena
*Fuerte Invencible
* Fortaleza Ozama, a sixteenth-century
* Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate), was the only entrance to the north and the furthest boundary of the city until around the late 19th century.
*Puerta de la Atarazans
*Puertas de San Diego, built by Alejandro de Fuenmayor in 1540
*Puerta de la Misericordia (Gates of Mercy)
defensive wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications with towers, bastions and gates ...
that surrounded the Ciudad Colonial, effectively creating bastions
A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fi ...
along the wall.
There are also several gates which allowed access to the city, these gates were also protected by forts. A prime example is ''El Baluarte del Conde'' and La Puerta del Conde, where ''La Puerta del Conde'' served as an entrance to the city and ''El Baluarte'' served to protect the entrance.
Forts
*Fuerte de la Concepcion
*Fuerte de la Caridad
*Fuerte de San Lazaro (Fort of Saint Lazarus)
*Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort of Saint Michael)
*Fuerte de San Francisco
*El Fuerte de Santa Barbara
*Fuerte de la Carena
*Fuerte Invencible
* Fortaleza Ozama, a sixteenth-century castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
that overlooks the Ozama River.
*Fuerte San Gil
*Fuerte de San Jose (Fort of Saint Joseph)
*Fuerte de Angulo
Gates
* Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate), was the only entrance to the north and the furthest boundary of the city until around the late 19th century.
*Puerta de la Atarazans
*Puertas de San Diego, built by Alejandro de Fuenmayor in 1540
*Puerta de la Misericordia (Gates of Mercy)
See also
*List of museums in the Dominican Republic
This is a list of museums in the Dominican Republic.
Museums in the Dominican Republic
* Alcázar de Colón
* Columbus Lighthouse
* Fortaleza San Felipe
* Fortaleza San Luis
* Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance
* Museo Bellapart
* Museo d ...
References
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A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...