The architecture is compelling, for sure, and my favourite part but the history, which I guess adds to the appeal of the architecture is also a dominant feature of St Augustine.
On the town’s foreshore is the huge fort of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the USA. You can read more about it here, it’s definitely worth a visit.
Inside the Fort’s courtyard
Cannon Firing Demonstration on the Fort Wall
The birds cleaning up after the Cannon Firing… they use bread as wadding in the gun… Free lunch for Pigeons
Preparing for Cannon Firing
Watch tower
Within the fort
Terrible selfie
The fort wall
The coquina limestone building material out of which the walls are made.. one of two forts in the US made of this material
Obviously discussing very important business