Castillo De Los Tres Reyes Del Morro, named after the three biblical Magi, in Havana, Cuba with its lighthouse

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Designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli and built by slaves with rocks extracted from the moats in the last decades of the 16th century, the Morro Castle to defend the town of San Cristobal de la Habana. However, due to economic problems and contradictions among Cuba’s governors and Antonelli, construction works took 30 years and were not completed until the 17th century. The floor is a polygon adapted to the elevated rock it was built on. It has two bastions, Tejada and Austria, and a semibastion on the elevation, facing the sea. Another interesting feature are the holes in the back walls through which prisoners were fed to the sharks. This fortress was the main defensive construction in the Havana harbor until La Cabaña was completed 1774.

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Size: 4474px × 2982px
Location: Malecon, Havana, Cuba
Photo credit: © Niall Ferguson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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