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Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is a remarkably preserved coastal fortress located in Sri Lanka. Constructed by the Dutch East India Comp...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

8.8 Great

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Castillo de San Marcos

Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by Spain in St. Augustine, Flo...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

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Castillo San Felipe

Spanish colonial fortress sharing a name with several Caribbean and South American strongholds, each built from the 16th...

Coastal Colonial Colombia 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Elmina Castle

Portuguese-built castle in Ghana (1482), the oldest surviving European structure in sub-Saharan Africa and a key depot i...

Colonial Portuguese Ghana 15TH Century

8.5 Great

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Cape Coast Castle

British-administered castle on the Ghanaian coast, rebuilt in the 17th century as one of West Africa's largest slave-hol...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Ghana

8.5 Great

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Agra Fort

Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Agra, India, developed primarily by Mughal emperor Akbar from 1565 and late...

India Imperial 16TH Century Mughal

8.4 Great

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Fort Bourtange

Fort Bourtange is a star fort in Groningen, the Netherlands, built in 1593 on orders of William of Orange to control the...

Netherlands 16TH Century Groningen Star Fort

8.3 Great

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Zamość Fortifications

A Renaissance fortified town in eastern Poland, designed by Italian architect Bernardo Morando for chancellor Jan Zamoys...

Renaissance Poland 16TH Century Star Fort

8.0 Great

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Citadel of Corfu

A Venetian-built fortification on the eastern promontory of Corfu town, Greece, developed from the 15th century onward t...

Coastal Island Greece 16TH Century

8.0 Great

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Brimstone Hill Fortress

UNESCO World Heritage Site on St. Kitts, a major British colonial fortification developed from the late 17th century and...

18TH Century British Colonial Hilltop

8.0 Great

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Intramuros

Walled city in Manila, Philippines, founded by Spanish colonizers in 1571 as the administrative and ecclesiastical cente...

Spanish Colonial Philippines Walled City

8.0 Great

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Gorée Island Fortress

Fortified island off Dakar, Senegal, occupied successively by Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British powers, now a UNESC...

Colonial Island 17TH Century Senegal

8.0 Great

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Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga is an 18th-century star fort at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, New York, originally built by Franc...

USA New York Colonial Revolutionary

7.8 Good

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Bakhchisaray Palace Fortress

Palace complex in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, serving as the seat of the Crimean Khanate from the 16th century and the only su...

Palace Ukraine 16TH Century Crimea

7.8 Good

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Junagarh Fort

Fort in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, built by Raja Rai Singh between 1588 and 1593, notable for having never been successf...

India 16TH Century Plains Rajasthan

7.8 Good

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Fort Santiago

16th-century Spanish citadel within Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, built around 1571 and notable as the final prison o...

Spanish Colonial Philippines 16TH Century

7.8 Good

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Fort Cornwallis

Star-shaped British fort in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, established by the East India Company in 1786 when Francis Li...

18TH Century British Colonial Malaysia

7.3 Good

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Diu Fort

Portuguese fort on Diu island off Gujarat, India, built in 1535 following the Battle of Diu and held as a Portuguese enc...

India Coastal Island 16TH Century

7.0 Good

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Vasai Fort

Portuguese fort built in 1536 near present-day Mumbai, India, captured by the Maratha forces under Chimaji Appa in 1739...

India Coastal 16TH Century Portuguese

6.2 Fair

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Arnala Fort

Island fort off the Vasai coast of Maharashtra, India, originally constructed by the Portuguese in the 16th century and...

India Coastal Island 16TH Century

5.8 Mediocre