Fort San Lorenzo, Portobelo

Fort San Lorenzo, Portobelo

If you want to know a Spanish fortress and its history that has pirate adventures, visit the Castillo de San Lorenzo, an example of military architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This monument is located in the province of Colon, at the entrance to the Chagres River, tributary where the pirate Henry Morgan came to the Old Panama City to plunder. There you will find the Fort San Lorenzo, surrounded by a wide variety of flora, fauna and landscapes that you can enjoy to the fullest.

history

The Castillo de San Lorenzo was built by the Spanish Crown in the seventeenth century, to protect transatlantic trade.

Being at the entrance to the Chagres River, a place where the pirate Henry Morgan came to the Old Panama City, it had first to capture the fortress defended by 314 Spanish soldiers, of whom only 30 survived. Being constantly under attack, the Fort was built by the Spanish again, but it was destroyed by the British, and today we can see the ruins.