Welt Auge - Volker Steinbacher

Puerto Rico ( zu: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
San Juan
The stone rests on the almost 500 years old walls of
El Morro on the north coast of the island Puerto Rico,
in Old San Juan. El Morro is the largest Spanish fort
in the New World and was begun in 1540 and finished
250 years later. Sir Francis Drake tried and failed to
take the fort from Spain. Many Dutch and English
forces tried again and again to capture El Morro (and
Puerto Rico) but always were defeated by the
Spanish. Finally, in 1898, in the Spanish-American
war, El Morro fell to the American Navy and Puerto
Rico become an American protectorate. Puerto Rico
has the only rain forest in North America and is an
island of exotic and natural beauty, and offers
travellers an unending variety of fascinating
destinations around the island.
Kathleen Schaefer, Bad Soden
2005