Fortaleza de Santa Bárbara — Attraction in Trujillo

One of top 3 historic icons at Trujillo City, high above the waves, gazing over the Caribbean toward the European motherland, this 17th-century Spanish fortress could not have a more evocative position. Though its ruined remains are not that impressive visually, it's still an inspirational spot to reflect on the forces and characters that shaped the history of the American continent. Fifteen cannons face the sea, and a plaque marks the place where North American wannabe conqueror William Walker was executed. The onsite museum has colonial and Garifuna artifacts.

People are kind, museum closes to public after 5pm every day of the week, the sunset and sunrise is a show you will remember by all your life, one of the best places to take an historic picture for your...

My advice for you is to stay out of that place, I came up with a positive mind but turn out it's a huge deception! There was no place to relax, nothing good to see and white foreigners treating people like human waste under their shoes to get rid of, I don't know how my fellow compatriots allow them to do that, I rather die in a battle to send them back to where they came from and see them another day taking to the last drop of life from us, huge deception for that matter, otherwise the place would have been awesome. And there were some people trying to sell us turtle eggs..... black market right in front of us. I'll never come back...

May be the place with more history in town, due the many pirates attacks in the early years of the country during the spanish rule, like the local people say "If that place could talk what histories could tell us", actually the US citizen filibuster Willian Walker was executed is that place, the leyend says that he cursed the town before being executed, other sources say what the pirates used to had thier anual convention at Roatan in the bay islands, and when they where drunked some times they decided attack and burn the town...