Castle of San Juan de Ulúa
San Juan de Ulúa, now known as Castle of San Juan de Ulúa, is a large complex of fortresses, prisons and one former palace on an island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico overlooking the seaport of Veracruz, Mexico.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Fort
- Description: colonial Spanish group of defensive military settlements in Veracruz, Mexico
- Also known as: “Castle of San Juan de Ulua”, “San Juan de Ulua”, and “San Juan de Ulúa”
Castle of San Juan de Ulúa
- Categories: museum, fortress, monument, tourist attraction, shipyard, prison, and tourism
- Location: Veracruz, Veracruz, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Castle of San Juan de Ulúa” goes by many names.
- Basque: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- Bengali: “সান হুয়ান দে উলুয়া”
- Dutch: “San Juan de Ulua”
- Dutch: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- French: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- German: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- Indonesian: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- Italian: “San Juan de Ulua”
- Italian: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- Japanese: “サン・フアン・デ・ウルア”
- Lithuanian: “San Chuan de Ulua”
- Portuguese: “Forte de San Juan de Ulúa”
- Spanish: “Castillo San Juan de Ulúa”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de San Juan de Ulúa”
- Spanish: “San Juan de Ulua”
- Spanish: “San Juan de Ulúa”
- Swedish: “Fort San Juan de Ulúa”
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