Castillo de San Marcos

A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Florida

Produced by the Division of Publications National Park Service

U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C.

Using this Handbook

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument is located in the longest continuously inhabited community founded by Europeans in the United States. This handbook tells the intercultural story of the long effort to build the Castillo and the emergence of a new Nation. The Guide and Adviser provides a brief guide to Saint Augustine and other related National Park Service areas in Florida.

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From the air the rationale for the layout of Castillo de San Marcos is readily apparent: no wall or approach is unguarded.

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This map, one of the earliest maps of a city that is now in the United States, depicts the June 1586 attack on St. Augustine by Sir Francis Drake. Note, in the middle, the English troops on Anastasia Island firing across the water on the Spanish fort.

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