The Promontory Of The Caribbean is a photograph by Sandra Pena de Ortiz which was uploaded on February 24th, 2013.
The Promontory Of The Caribbean
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Title
The Promontory Of The Caribbean
Artist
Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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Photograph - Photography
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This photograph was taken inside the grounds of El Morro at Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1990. I rephotographed the printed photo with my CANON Rebel DSLR camera. The photograph was taken looking down from the second level of Fort San Felipe del Morro, or El Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Spanish, named in honor of King Philip (Felipe) II of Spain. The image shows a special point of view and perspective allowing us to see the magnificence of the castle's structure and colonial architecture as well as several tourists. El Morro is a sixteenth-century citadel that lies on the northwestern-most point of the islet of San Juan, Puerto Rico. El Morro is part of San Juan National Historic Site and was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1983. The name, "El Morro", means promontory: a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower-lying land or a body of water. Puerto Rico is actually consider the Gibraltar of the Caribbean. Its strategic geographic location at the western edge of the Caribbean made San Juan one of the key frontier outposts of Spaniards West Indies dominions. The fortification guarded the entrance to the San Juan Bay and was used to defend the Spanish colonial port city of San Juan from seaborne enemies. More than two million visitors come yearly to explore the windswept ramparts and passageways making the castillo one of Puerto Rico's main visitor attractions. Indeed, El Morro is one of Puerto Rico's principal tourist attractions, displaying multiple artifacts used and made by Spaniards, the indigenous Taino indians, and by Africans, which were brought as slaves to the of that time. Finally, both tourists and Puerto Ricans enjoy flying kites in the ocean wind on the grand acres of grass surrounding the castle.
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February 24th, 2013
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Lorna Maza
This is a magnificent photograph old but full of memories, a vintage structure picture from the past. Very nice, fav/vote!
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