Abandoned Spain | Bateria de Castillitos | Coastal Defence Gun Battery | #urbex #abandonedplaces

History of the Coastal Defence Battery:
The battery was built and armed between 1933 and 1936 and according to how it was planned in 1926, to protect the Spanish Navy docks if under attack. Castillitos gun battery was equipped with two shore guns from the British company Vickers-Armstrong. These guns could fire one-ton projectile at 20 miles.
Its task was to protect the entrance to the bay of Cartagena along with its twin, the Ash Battery located at Cape Negrete, in a crossfire that prevented the entry of hostile elements. During the Spanish civil war, they were fired against the fleet of the rebel side in April 1937 , although the presence of the fortifications that surrounded the city was enough to keep any enemy ship away.
After the war ended, in 1942 a new firing direction was added and it was studied to support it with strategically placed rangefinders and graphometers , although it was finally abandoned. It remained in service until 1994 , when the "North Plan was applied, which sought to make better use of the resources of the Armed Forces. Since then the battery was abandoned, until in 2009 the Ministry of the EnvironmentHe decided to make an investment with which the fortification was restored and it became open free to visitors.

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