Reconstruction and extension

(1697-1741) The strategic importance of San Felipe as a defense for the entrance to the city was demonstrated after the attack of Baron De Pointis, for this reason, rebuilding and enlarging it was a constant in the following century. In […]

(1697-1741)

The strategic importance of San Felipe as a defense for the entrance to the city was demonstrated after the attack of Baron De Pointis, for this reason, rebuilding and enlarging it was a constant in the following century. In 1715 they added barracks for the troops, a warehouse for explosives and the main entrance with a drawbridge which connected to the stone staircase through a palisade with a covered path.
The engineer Herrera y Sotomayor also left his mark on the fortress with a covered palisade in the middle of the hill in 1724 and a military building for the Castle Warden in 1728, which, because of a lack of funds, prolonged its construction until 1730. At the end of the decade, in 1739, fearing an attack by England, a hornwork of tightly woven kindling sticks with a covered path and esplanade was added; and in the south, the San Lázaro beach was defended by another battery.