El “Plan de la ciudad de San Agustín de la Florida y sus contornos, situada en la altura septentrional de 29 grados y 50 minutos” de Antonio de Arredondo de 1737. Una ciudad ideal en La Florida Española en el siglo XVIII

The 18th Century saw, with the establishment of the Royal Engineers Corps in 1711, the arrival of a new figure which would transform the graphical characteristics of Spanish Cartography. The military engineer, equipped with new regulatory cartographic tools, began the process of objectively defining Spanish territories in the New World, which would be a move away from the urban and military cartography and planimetries which were characteristic of the conquest and colonialization of the previous centuries. As a basis for the study of this new cartography, we will analyse Antonio de Arredondo’s plan for the city of San Agustin de la Florida (St. Augustine, Florida), given that it perfectly exemplifies the graphical characteristics and theoretical principles which fostered the process of the establishment of the Spanish military engineer in the New World in the opening decades of the 18th Century.