[tricolon]

> former s.XIX coastal battery fortress

For a second there I thought that was one hell of a typo but I found out that "s. XIX" is the Spanish way to write "19th century". "Siglo" is another word for century. Now I'm wondering... why? And why use Roman numerals? Was this originally a Catholic thing?

[narag]

Orthotypography has a lot of differeces between languages. In Spanish we don't capitalize all words in titles, use romans for centuries, different rules for quotation marks, and a long etc. Nothing to do with catholicism that I'm aware of.