Spain · Partial ruin
St. Philip's Castle
St. Philip's Castle (Castell de Sant Felip) is a coastal fortress on the Sant Carles point guarding the entrance to Mahón harbour on Menorca. Rebuilt by the British in the 1760s around an earlier 16th-century fort, it saw major action in the 18th century and was partly demolished after 1781. Today only low sections of the ashlar curtain walls, fragments of columns and vaulted openings survive as a partial ruin.
First raised
1600
Its prime
1770
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1770
The shape it held in its prime.
Low, thick curtain walls of pale beige limestone ashlar laid in horizontal courses form a roughly rectangular enclosure on a flat coastal point. Surviving masonry is generally single-storey height with large rectangular blocks and occasional dressed column shafts or pilaster bases built into wall faces. A deep rectangular arched opening pierces the seaward wall. The interior is a flat, grass-covered parade with scattered rubble, flagstone fragments and a narrow path beside the inner wall; low scrub lies beyond the walls toward the harbour.
Its story
The story of St. Philip's Castle.
St Philip's Castle — Castell de Sant Felip, often known as Fort St Phillip — guarded the entrance to the port of Mahón from the Sant Carles point on Menorca, in the municipality of Es Castell. A Spanish fort was established here about 1554; the fortress that followed was rebuilt by British forces in the 1760s around that earlier work.
The castle is best known for its two unsuccessful British defences: the Siege of Fort St Philip in 1756 and the Invasion of Minorca in 1781, after which it was partly demolished. Today only low sections of the ashlar curtain walls, fragments of columns and vaulted openings survive as a partial ruin.
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