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[edit]The following is a table listing the sites which already have Wikipedia articles on or relating to them and are therefore be made ready to have a GibraltarpediA plaque installed. The plan is to have each QRpedia code labelled in English and one other language. We are keen to get as many languages as possible on display to show that this project (and Wikipedia) is interested in all languages:
Image | Bastion | Description | Coordinates | Spanish | Built |
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Flat Bastion | Flat Bastion is a bastion which projects southward from the Charles V Wall in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. At one time known as St. Jago's Bastion. The fortification formed part of the southern defences of the city of Gibraltar, together with Charles V Wall and, to its west, Southport Gate, Southport Ditch, and South Bastion. | 36°08′05″N 5°21′04″W / 36.13482°N 5.351018°W | Baluarte de Santiago | mid 16th century | |
Forbes Bastion | Forbes Bastion | 36°N 5°W / 36.°N 5.°W | |||
Hesse's Demi Bastion | Hesse's Demi Bastion is ... | 36°N 5°W / 36.°N 5.°W | es:Baluarte de San Pedro | ||
Jumper's Bastion (North) | Jumper's Bastion (North) | es:Santa Cruz | |||
Jumper's Bastion (South) | Jumper's Bastion (South) | xx:none | |||
King's Bastion | King's Bastion is now coverted into a bowling alley and ... (Anne and Gibmetal77 are working on the article) | 36°08′24″N 5°21′19″W / 36.140064°N 5.355195°W | es:Plataforma de San Lorenzo | 1773 | |
South Bastion | South Bastion was part of the fortifications of Gibraltar, protecting the western base of the Charles V Wall. It was originally built by Spanish military engineers, later improved by the British. The South Bastion stands at the south end of the Line Wall Curtain which defends the town from attack from the Bay of Gibraltar. Another curtain wall runs east from the bastion to the base of a precipice | 36°08′03″N 5°21′14″W / 36.134261°N 5.353781°W | xx:none | ||
Montagu Bastion | Montagu Bastion is ... | es:Plataforma de San Andrés | |||
North Bastion | North Bastion, (St. Paul's Bastion) was part of the fortifications of Gibraltar, in the north of the peninsula, protecting the town against attack from the mainland of Spain. The bastion was based on the older Giralda tower, built in 1309. The bastion, with a mole that extended into the Bay of Gibraltar to the west and a curtain wall stretching to the Rock of Gibraltar on its east, was a key element in the defenses of the peninsula | 36°08′45″N 5°21′10″W / 36.145904°N 5.352799°W | es:Baluarte San Pablo | 1309? | |
Orange Bastion|Orange Bastion | Orange Bastion is ... | es:Plataforma de Santa Ana | |||
South Bastion | South Bastion protects the western base of the Charles V Wall. It was originally built by Spanish military engineers, later improved by the British.[1] The South Bastion stands at the south end of the Line Wall Curtain which defends the town from attack from the Bay of Gibraltar. Another curtain wall runs east from the bastion to the base of a precipice. This wall is pierced by the Southport Gates | es:Baluarte de Nuestra Señora del Rosario | 1540 | ||
Wellington Front North Demi Bastion | Wellington Front North Demi Bastion is ... | es:Plataforma de San Diego | |||
Wellington Front South Demi Bastion | Wellington Front South Demi Bastion is ... | es:Plataforma de San Francisco |