Discover an ancient defensive bastion against pirates, with a wall of 17 loopholes and a 180-degree angle of fire. You will appreciate its history and the pa...

The castle or battery of Soberano is an example of the defensive enclaves built to deal with the incursions that took place along a large part of the Galician coast during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The Sovereign's Castle, completed during the reign of Charles III (1759-1788), although begun during the reign of Philip V (1700-1746), was intended to defend the Camariñas estuary from attacks by English and Dutch pirates. This battery consisted of a wall with seventeen loopholes four metres deep and a 180-degree angle of fire over the estuary. It consisted of a rear enclosure, like a cannon, to defend the land front, with a bastion and two half bastions, a moat in front of them, and the entrance on the side face of the central bastion. The defensive wall covered a 120-metre front full of loopholes. After the Civil War it was dismantled and its perpendiculars were used for the construction of the quay. For this purpose, rails were laid from the castle to the town and, by means of carts, they transported, stone by stone, the entire edge of the Sovereign's battery.