Somewhere in my earlier travels someone asked me if I was going to visit St. Augustine. I hadn’t planned to but they raved about it so much that I did & am glad I did. It is the oldest European city in the United States. Ponce de Leon came in 1513. St. Augustine was the Spanish center of power in North America for almost 200 years.
In 1672 the Spanish built Castillo de San Marcos, a military fortress, to protect their interests from the ever expanding British Empire. St. Augustine was sacked twice by the British but the Spanish survived by laying low in the Castillo.
Supposedly, Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired by the tavern here in his writing of Treasure Island, he had started writing the novel in Scotland but when he came to America he heard tales of the tavern here & how pirates "recruited" sailors from it.
This is a great little artsy town. I could live here. I liked the community concert in the evening.
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