FORTALEZA REAL FELIPE

The Real Felipe Fortress is a military building built in the eighteenth century in the bay of Callao (Peru), during the governments of the viceroys José Antonio Manso de Velasco and Manuel de Amat y Junient, to defend the port against attacks from pirates and privateers.

It is one of the few works of military architecture that exist in Peru and is the largest built by the Spanish in America. It was known during the colonial era, together with the strong "San Rafael" and "San Miguel", as the "Castles of Callao."

Its name was chosen in honor of King Philip V of the House of Bourbon, who had died in 1746. Later it was renamed by José de San Martín as "Castle of Independence" at the beginning of the Republican period, resuming its original name in 1925.