Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish Navy was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world. One of his largest ammunition depot was in San Fernando.<\/p>\n
In that town in the province of C\u00e1diz the first three powder depot were built in 1730<\/strong>, in Punta Cantera. As the Milan2.info website explains<\/a>, the first three depot were of the type Verboom (named after Jorge Pr\u00f3spero de Verboom, a Spanish soldier of Flemish origin who founded the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1711) and were baptized with the names of saints: Santa B\u00e1rbara, San Bernardo and San Jer\u00f3nimo<\/strong> . The last two are preserved today, used until the mid-1970s for the purpose for which they were built, and used since then as non-explosive material warehouses.<\/p>\n In the 1920s and 1930s, this ammunition depot was expanded with four new Miranda-type depot<\/strong>, named after Augusto Miranda y Godoy, then Minister of the Navy and architect of the idea of building them. In the 1970s two of them were converted into cisterns. <\/strong>All four are preserved, but one of them is in ruins.<\/p>\n Milan2.info<\/a> also points out that in 1955 five Type A depots<\/strong>, vaulted and intended to house high-explosive ammunition. Subsequently 13 type B depot were also built<\/strong>, to store ammunition with little explosive power and built to prevent fire from spreading between them in the event of an explosion, and two type C depot<\/strong>, smaller and intended for fireworks, baits, black powder and low detonating power explosives. The Fadricas depot were abandoned by the Spanish Navy in 2001<\/strong>, the explosive material being transferred to the Rota Naval Base. However, the land still belongs to the Ministry of Defense (although you can visit the area) and on Google Maps the place appears out of focus<\/a>, as if it were still an active military base.<\/p>\n
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