A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Florida
Produced by the Division of Publications
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
_Using this Handbook_
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument is located in the longest
continuously inhabited community founded by Europeans in the United
States. This handbook tells the intercultural story of the long effort
to build the Castillo and the emergence of a new Nation. The Guide and
Adviser provides a brief guide to Saint Augustine and other related
National Park Service areas in Florida.
[Illustration: From the air the rationale for the layout of Castillo
de San Marcos is readily apparent: no wall or approach is
unguarded.]
[Illustration: This map, one of the earliest maps of a city that is
now in the United States, depicts the June 1586 attack on St.
Augustine by Sir Francis Drake. Note, in the middle, the English
troops on Anastasia Island firing across the water on the Spanish
fort.]