🏛️ San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

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The Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca is a fortress located on the coast of the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba. About 6 miles (10 km) southwest of the city centre, it overlooks the bay. The fortress was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997, cited as the best preserved and most complete example of Spanish-American military architecture.

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San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba is a cultural World Heritage site in Cuba, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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