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Fort Santiago ((スペイン語:Fuerte de Santiago) (タガログ語:Moog ng Santiago)) is a citadel first built by Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi for the new established city of Manila in the Philippines. The defense fortress is part of the structures of the walled city of Manila referred to as Intramuros (''"within the walls"''). The fort is one of the most important historical sites in Manila. Several lives were lost in its prisons during the Spanish Colonial Period and World War II. José Rizal, the Philippine national hero, was imprisoned here before his execution in 1896. The Rizal Shrine museum displays memorabilia of the hero in their collection and the fort features, embedded onto the ground in bronze, his footsteps representing his final walk from his cell to the location of the actual execution. It is a few hundred steps away from the Manila Cathedral and Palacio del Gobernador (which currently house the Commission on Elections). ==Profile== The fort was named after Saint James the Great (''Santiago'' in Spanish), the patron saint of Spain, whose relief adorns the façade of the front gate.〔John T. Pilot (2009-10-22). ("Fort Santiago Gate" ). Flickr. Retrieved on 2012-01-08.〕〔John T. Pilot (2009-10-22). ("Fort Santiago Gate" ). Flickr. Retrieved on 2012-01-08.〕 It is located at the mouth of the Pasig River and served as the premier defense fortress of the Spanish Government during their rule of the country. It became a main fort for the spice trade to the Americas and Europe for 333 years. The Manila Galleon trade to Acapulco, Mexico began from the Fuerte de Santiago. The fort has a perimeter of , and it is of a nearly triangular form. The south front, which looks toward the city, is a curtain with a terreplein, flanked by two demi-bastions - the ''Bastion of San Fernando'', on the riverside, and the ''Bastion of San Miguel'', by the bayside. A moat connected with the river separates the fort from the city. Near the beginning of the north face, instead of a bastion, a cavalier called ''Santa Barbara'' was built with three faces of batteries, one looking seaward over the anchorage place, one facing the entrance, and the third looking upon the river. The latter is united with a tower of the same height as the walls, through which there is a descent to the water battery placed upon a semicircular platform, thus completing the triangular form of the fort.〔 〕 The high walls, with a thickness of are pierced for the necessary communications. The front gateway façade measures high being in the south wall and facing the city. The communication with the river and the sea was by an obscure postern gate - the ''Postigo de la Nuestra Señora del Soledad'' (Postern of Our Lady of Solitude). Inside the fort were guard stations, together with the barracks of the troops of the garrison and quarters of the warden and his subalterns. Also inside the fort were various storehouses, a chapel, the powder magazine, the sentry towers, the cisterns, etc.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fort Santiago」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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