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I'll add another example; La Mola in Menorca [1], built by the English starting in 1708. I was going to post a google map link but strangely it is a censured zo

• omegant 12y ago
  Is still a military zone, but has no strategic use now a days. It´s just a museum, were you can visit the old fortress and a coastal artillery battery from the beginning of sXX that used the only Vickers 385/45 remaining from the times of the first world war (huge cannons that were also mounted on Battleships). La Mola didn´t see action, and in fact it just became obsolete just before being finished (it never got the cannons) because new rifled canons with longer range made close fire and old fortress design completely infective (The bunker and underground fortification era began). I thing it´s more impressive the fortress that it´s at the other side of the bay, la fortaleza de San Felipe, demolished by the Spanish government once menorca passed again to Spanish control because it was so big that they were unable to man it. http://descobreixmenorca.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dmenorca_britanica_sant_felip_3.jpg http://descobreixmenorca.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dmen...