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Panoramic photograph of a stone fort with a corner watchtower, a flag on a pole above the wall, a row of iron cannon barrels lying on sand in the foreground, and a seawall and water at rightPhoto: “Jon Zander (Digon3)”, CC BY-SA 3.0
Stone fort seen from across a grassy moat, with a pointed bastion and small domed turret at the center, cannon visible along the parapet, and a gravel path curving through the lawnPhoto: Jrozwado, CC BY-SA 4.0
Panoramic photograph taken from the gun deck looking down into a square courtyard of grass, enclosed by two-story stone rooms with barred windows and open doorwaysPhoto: “Jon Zander (Digon3)”, CC BY-SA 3.0
Stone wall facing a lawn, with an arched wooden double door set in a carved stone surround, a window above it, and barred windows and open doorways to either sidePhoto: Jrozwado, CC BY-SA 4.0
Stone bastion photographed at night under floodlights, its two walls meeting at a sharp corner topped by a domed sentry turret, with a dark blue sky above and lit grass belowPhoto: Juliancolton, CC BY-SA 4.0

Castillo de San Marcos

Fort or battlefield, Historic siteSt. Augustine, Florida
Open to the public9 AM to 5:15 PMSee hours
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Open to the public9 AM to 5:15 PM

Castillo de San Marcos is a National Park Service site open to the public with an entrance pass. The park grounds are closed from midnight until 6:00 a.m., and visitors must leave the fort by 5:15 p.m.

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Castillo de San Marcos is a masonry coastal fort in St. Augustine, Florida, run by the National Park Service as a national monument and open seven days a week except Thanksgiving and Christmas 1, 2. It stands at 1 South Castillo Drive on the waterfront, with a gun deck that staff close during thunderstorms and lower interior rooms that stay open in bad weather 2, 3. Visitors commonly describe footsteps and voices in the vaulted interior rooms, figures in period military dress on the gun deck and in the courtyard, and a sense of being watched in the old prison and powder rooms.

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