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Property	Value
rdf:type	historic site
rdfs:label	Castillo de San Cristóbal (Puerto Rico)
rdfs:comment	Castillo de San Cristóbal is the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. When it was finished in 1783, it covered about 27 acres of land and basically wrapped around the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal's double gates. After close to one hundred years of relative peace in the area, part of the fortification (about a third) was demolished in 1897 to help ease the flow of traffic in and out of the walled city.
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designation1 free1name	State Party
Built	1783
designation1 criteria	vi
Name	Castillo de San Cristóbal
Caption	Aerial view of Castillo de San Cristobal General view of San Juan, Puerto Rico from the top of Fort San Cristóbal
designation1 date	1983
locmapin	Puerto Rico
Designation	WHS NRHP
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designation1 number	266
designation2 offname	Castille San Cristóbal
designation1 free1value	United States
Height	200
Governing body	National Park Service
designation1 offname	Fort San Cristóbal
Latitude	18.467222
designation1 type	Cultural
designation1 free2name	Region
Longitude	-66.111111
designation2 number	66000930
designation1 partof	La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site
designation2 date	1966-10-15
Location	San Juan, Puerto Rico
abstract	Castillo de San Cristóbal is the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. When it was finished in 1783, it covered about 27 acres of land and basically wrapped around the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal's double gates. After close to one hundred years of relative peace in the area, part of the fortification (about a third) was demolished in 1897 to help ease the flow of traffic in and out of the walled city. This fortress was built on a hill originally known as the Cerro de la Horca or the Cerro del Quemadero, which was changed to Cerro de San Cristóbal in celebration of the Spanish victories ejecting English and Dutch interlopers from the island of this name in the Lesser Antilles, then forming part of the insular territorial glacis of Puerto Rico.