{"id":147590,"date":"2019-10-13T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-10-13T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T07:50:14","slug":"cape-town-lens-forteresse-de-san-carlos-de-la-cabana-san-carlos-de-la-cabana-fortress-fortaleza-de-san-carlos-de-la-cabana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cape-town-lens-forteresse-de-san-carlos-de-la-cabana-san-carlos-de-la-cabana-fortress-fortaleza-de-san-carlos-de-la-cabana\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Lens: Forteresse de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a \/ San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a Fortress \/ Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cape Town Castle Military Museum<\/em> tagged image from photographer \u2013 nyctaline<\/a> as published on Flickr.<\/p>\n

Forteresse de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a \/ San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a Fortress \/ Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a<\/strong>
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Image by nyctaline<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

La Forteresse de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a, a \u00e9t\u00e9 construite en 1763 par l\u2019Espagne \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e du port de La Havane, alors que Cuba \u00e9tait l\u2019une de ses colonies. C\u2019\u00e9tait alors le plus grand complexe militaire du Nouveau monde. La forteresse servit ensuite de prison pendant le r\u00e9gime de Fulgencio Batista et apr\u00e8s la prise du pouvoir de la r\u00e9volution cubaine en 1959. De nombreux proc\u00e8s et ex\u00e9cutions y eurent alors lieu sous la supervision de Che Guevara. C\u2019est maintenant un parc historique contenant plusieurs mus\u00e9es. (Wikip\u00e9dia)<\/p>\n

The fortress served as both a military base and prison, over the next two hundred years, for both Spain and an independent Cuba. La Caba\u00f1a was used as a military prison during the Batista regime. In January 1959, rebels led by Che Guevara captured La Caba\u00f1a, to use it as a headquarters and military prison for several months, while leading the Cuban revolution. During his five-month tenure in that post (January 2 through June 12, 1959), Guevara oversaw the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals, traitors, chivatos (informants), and former members of Batista\u2019s secret police. The complex is now part of a historical park, along with El Morro castle, and houses several museums open to the public. From there, every night a cannon shot rumbles at 9pm as the so-called “El Ca\u00f1onazo de las 9”, a custom kept from colonial times, signaling the closure of the city wall doors. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

Une journ\u00e9e \u00e0 la Havane \/ One day in Havana \/ Uno dia en La Habana, Cuba<\/p>\n

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\nQuick Cape Town Fact:<\/strong> Cape Town was founded in 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company based in The Netherlands arrived to set up a halfway point for ships travelling to the East.<\/p>\n

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A Cape Town Castle Military Museum tagged image from photographer \u2013 nyctaline as published on Flickr. Forteresse de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a \/ San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a Fortress \/ Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1aImage by nyctaline La Forteresse de San Carlos de la Caba\u00f1a, a \u00e9t\u00e9 construite en 1763 par l\u2019Espagne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3331],"tags":[25,1737,77,3333],"class_list":{"0":"post-147590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cape-town","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"tag-mycapetown-co-za","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}