Castillo de San Marcos
Once
you step inside Castillo de San Marcos, it’s as if you’ve stepped into
another world . . . the 18TH century to be exact. Standing in the
main hall and looking through the archway into a Spanish guardroom lets me know
I’ve arrived at my favorite place in all of St. Augustine. Before the 1750s,
the guardrooms were one large room, but renovations separated them into two. I
sometimes see visitors sitting or lying on the bunks (which I’m not sure you’re
allowed to do) to see just how hard they are, but you can see just by looking
at them that napping in Spanish times wouldn’t have been much of a treat.
St. George Street
For
the first 198 years of life, St. Augustine was solely Spanish. The British were
here for 21 years, then the Spanish again for 37 years, and then the old
crumbling city came under the protection of the United States of America. The
flags shown at the Colonial Quarter gift shop next to the American flag are, from left to right, Florida State, 1ST Period
Spanish (1565-1763), 2ND Period Spanish (1784-1821), and British (1763-1784).
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