Mers el Kebir, Oran, Algeria. Reconstruction of the Spanish fortress of Mers el Kebir or Mazalquivir, a bastioned citadel built between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries taking advantage of the bedrock of a ledge that dominated the Gulf of Oran. This configuration is the corresponding one at the end of the 17th century.
Mers el Kebir, Oran, Algeria. Reconstruction of the Spanish fortress of Mers el Kebir or Mazalquivir, a bastioned citadel built between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries taking advantage of the bedrock of a ledge that dominated the Gulf of Oran. This configuration is the corresponding one at the end of the 17th century.