Fort Matanzas National Monument is located 14 miles south of St Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine is ... Click on the map below to see current vacation rentals and lodges near the park.

Built between 1672 and 1695 by the Spanish, The Castillo de San Marcos served as a fort for ... in downtown St. Augustine once protected the newly established territory of Spanish Florida from ...

Most St. Augustine visitors ... America's Black history. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in the U.S., established in 1738. During this time, Florida was governed ...