Forgotten Bastions Along the Spanish Main: Campeche

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Today, on the Western Coast of the peninsula of Yucatán stand centuries-old Spanish fortifications, the most remarkable example of military architecture in the Western Hemisphere. Abandoned monuments to that titanic colonial adventure of the New World, which came to an end more than two hundred years ago, they guard the port and little town of Campeche, which now lies like some half-forgotten legend beside the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico.