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A presidio (jail, fortification) [1] was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire mainly between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or ...
El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá , leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California —at that time an unexplored northwestern frontier area of New Spain .
Presidio Park is a city historic park in San Diego, California. It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission , the first European settlements in what is now the West Coast of the United States , were founded in 1769.
The Presidio of San Ignacio de Túbac or Fort Tubac was a Spanish built fortress. The fortification was established by the Spanish Army in 1752 at the site of present-day Tubac, Arizona . Its ruins are preserved in the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park .
In modern times, the Presidio serves as a significant tourist attraction, museum and an active archaeological site as part of El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park. [ 3 ] The park contains an original adobe structure called El Cuartel, which is the second oldest surviving building in California; [ 4 ] only the chapel at Mission San ...
Alcalá-Zamora y Queipo de Llano, J. (1976). "Razón de estado y geoestrategia en la política italiana de Carlos II: Florencia y los presidios, 1677–1681". Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia. 173: 297– 358. Angiolini, Franco (2006). "I presidios di Toscana: cadena de oro e llave y freno de Italia". In García Hernán, Enrique ...
The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with panopticon design, built on the Isla de Pinos ("Isle of Pines"), now the Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), in Cuba. It is located in the suburban quarter of Chacón, Nueva Gerona .
Commandant of the Presidio of San Diego from October 23, 1820, to September 1821 and again from 1827 to his death in 1830.. Estudillo married Gertrudis Horcasitas. In 1827 Estudillo's son, José Antonio Estudillo, built a large L-shaped adobe house for his father on land granted by Governor José María de Echeandía.