Casa de Hildago

In the early years of St. Augustine, the area between old town and the Castillo de San Marcos was a swamp. After the construction of the Castillo, the population boomed and began to extend towards the fort. Following the construction ...

Aviles Street

Located two blocks from the Matanzas River, Aviles Street is considered one of the oldest thoroughfares in St. Augustine, in existence for over 400 years. Constructed in the late 16th or early 17th century to fit the Spanish city plan, ...

The Rosario Line

During the 18th century St. Augustine functioned as a presidio, or Spanish military outpost, with forts and defensive lines protecting the city. The Rosario Line was one of these defensive lines. It was also known as the Line of Circumvallation.

Monson Motor Lodge

Just south of the Castillo de San Marcos along the bay is the Historic Hilton Waterfront Hotel. Until the early 21st Century, this location housed the Monson Motor Lodge, a local well-known hotel. During it’s demolition, the city of St. ...

National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...

Old Town St. Augustine

Established as a European style presidio in 1572, Old Town St. Augustine included a fort and earthen defense line. Constructed when the settlement moved from Anastasia Island, colonists situated Old Town St. Augustine south of the present day plaza, bounded ...

John McMahon Environmental Education Center

Now owned and operated by the City of Crestview, the Environmental Center was originally conceived and started by former Okaloosa County Forester John McMahon in 1979. The center offers a park-like setting with picnic area and two ornamental fish ponds ...

Port of Collioure

The commune of Collioure is a small seaside Catalan village in southern France on the Vermeil Coast of the Mediterranean, north of the Spanish border and the Pyrenees. Occupied since prehistoric times, early records show the Visigoths lived on this ...

Catalan Fishermen of Banyuls-sur-Mer

The Catalan Fishing Village of Banyuls-sur-Mer

Banyuls-sur-Mer is a seaside village in the most southern corner of France located in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon of the Eastern Pyrenees. The village lays nestled between foothills, the steeps slopes covered with vast ...

Saint Peter Chapel

The Saint Peter Chapel located on the harbor seawall of Villefranche-sur-Mer is a fourteenth century Romanesque chapel dedicated to Saint Peter, as the patron saint of fishermen. The chapel fell into disuse in the eighteenth century and became a storage ...