Barron Plan

Three 15cm Krupp guns at Battery 3
Three 15cm Krupp guns at Battery 3

The Barron Plan was an Anglo-Portuguese plan for military infrastructure developed after World War II, to provide coastal defences for the Portuguese capital of Lisbon and the major port of Setúbal. These defences were installed between 1948 and 1958, involving fixed batteries along the banks of the Tagus and Sado rivers and on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Setúbal peninsula. The batteries were manned by the Coastal Artillery Regiment (RAC).[1][2]

A neglected 15.2cm Vickers gun at Battery 2
A neglected 15.2cm Vickers gun at Battery 2
  1. ^ Pais, Maria Rita; Hoffman, Katiuska; Campos, Sandra (2021). "Understanding Bunker Architecture Heritage as a Climate Action Tool: Plan Barron in Lisbon as a "Milieu" and as "Common Good" When Dealing with the Rise of the Water Levels". Heritage. 4 (4): 4609–4628. doi:10.3390/heritage4040254.
  2. ^ Gonçalves, Mara (6 January 2019). "Os últimos canhões da costa calaram-se há 20 anos". Público. Retrieved 7 November 2023.