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Ninety seconds on Fuerte San Antonio
Under the cliff, a side path off the esplanade drops to a small beach of calm water. It is the quietest place in town to watch the bay at dusk, and the guns are a short climb back up.
Most of the fort is gone. What remains is an open esplanade on the clifftop with its guns, three of them still holding shot, and the mouth of the old powder-magazine tunnel, blocked since the 1960 earthquake.
Sellers of crafts and home baking set up where the walk in begins.
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