BASTIONED FORT OF THE SAN CRISTOBAL. FORTICATION

OF BADAJOZ

They were four the forts that defendian the city bastioned from the exterior. That of St Kitts, placed in the right margen of the Guadiana, was the important mas of all, since from his location on the hill of the Orinaza, it dominates the city. That of the Head of the Bridge, it was closing and protecting the exit of the same one, in the way of Portugal. Defending the zone mas weak person of the square, opposite to the Door of Pilar was the strong missing person of Pardaleras. They were completing the exterior enclosure the Revellín de San Roque and the Fort of the Picuriña, also known like about the Prince.

STRONGHOLD OF THE SAN CRISTOBAL    

It is placed on the hill of the Orinaza, place chosen in a beginning by Ibn Marwan to locate the city of Badajoz. His works began in the 17th century, as part of a project to strengthen the defenses of the square. It is composed by two small bastions joined by a curtain defended in the northern part by a beautiful lens. In the southern part, two semibastions are joined to the later gullet. A wide pit surrounds the fortification. After the conquest of the square for the Frenchmen in 1811, it got up in the northern part (on a near hill) the lens Verlé today missing. A covered way it was joining this strength, with the hornabeque of the Head of the Bridge.

STRONG SEAT